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After the September 11, 2001 attacks, US political and military leaders adopted a new set of terms — including 'enhanced interrogation', 'extraordinary rendition' and 'enemy combatants' — that reframed violent or legally dubious practices in clinical language. That vocabulary accompanied the broad 'war on terror' framework, which enabled overseas invasions, the Guantanamo detention system, secret CIA prisons and expanded domestic security powers.
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