What is EIT?

Enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT), rough interrogation, the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods, and alternative set of procedures were terms adopted by the George W. Bush administration in the United States to describe the methods used by US military intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which they claimed were necessary to extract information from unlawful enemy combatants as part of the War on Terror. To date, there is no evidence that torture is either necessary or more successful than interrogation without coercion. The term "enhanced interrogation techniques," is widely seen as a euphemism used to avoid the ban on torture under both U.S. and international law.

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