Eric Root: Brennan defending torture, not interrogation

To the editor:

The headline "CIA director defends use of interrogation" on page 2 of the December 12, 2014 edition was remarkable for what it didn't say. Director Brennan was not defending 'interrogation', he was defending torture. He called it "EIT" or enhanced interrogation techniques, which was the Bush Administration's euphemism, and inconsistent with what President Obama and John McCain have called it. But whether the Daily Sun calls it what it is, or chooses to go with apologists' euphemisms, by leaving out even the euphemistic qualifiers, the headline misinforms the reader.