Terms used by the WP to not call it torture

[Ichingcarpenter]

Under the headline "CIA Misled on Interrogation Program, Senate Report Says," reporters Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima explain that the still-classified, 6,000-plus page report finds that the CIA misled lawmakers and the public about the effectiveness of torture.
But the piece doesn't call it torture.


Readers learn about a "brutal interrogation program," "harsh techniques," "excruciating interrogation methods," "brutal measures," "harsh interrogation techniques," "coercive techniques," "previously undisclosed cases of abuse," "harsh treatment" and "enhanced interrogation techniques."


The descriptions were at times quite vivid. Readers learn of the treatment of one prisoner:

CIA interrogators forcibly kept his head under the water while he struggled to breathe and beat him repeatedly, hitting him with a truncheon-like object and smashing his head against a wall.

But they still won't call that "torture."

http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/04/02/its-torture-but-lets-not-call-it-that/

You can't see
90 percent of reality for it is unseen and unknown.....dark matter and dark energy.

[Solly Mack]

1. Only cowards use the weasel words.

[librechik]

2. what we don't know could fill the Pacific with bits of trash. At the least.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. There's your "Liberal Media" for you....

If it really WERE "Liberal" the word "Torture" would be everywhere.

[zeemike]

4. It is just being normalized.

And we all know that it is necessary to keep us safe...the TV program 24 proved that.

[Luminous Animal]

5. They'll call it torture when other countries do it.

[frylock]

7. but we don't torture or terrorize others..

we interrogate and liberate.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Orwell