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  • noun One who gives a debriefing.

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debrief +‎ -er

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Examples

  • To listen to Joe De Capua's debriefer with reporter Delia Robertson in Johannesburg about the Botswana strike, click the link below.

    Botswana Strike Deals Blow to Health Services 2011

  • The official says a senior and experienced CIA debriefer came from Kabul for the meeting, suggesting that the purpose of the meeting was to gain intelligence.

    AP: Taliban suicide bomber invited on base 2009

  • Associated Press Khalid Sheikh Mohammed That debriefer also helped stage a "mock execution," in which a gun was fired outside an interrogation room and a guard, dressed up to look like a hooded detainee, posed motionless on the ground when the real detainee passed to "appear as if he had been shot to death."

    Special Prosecutor to Probe CIA Handling of Terror Suspects 2009

  • The debriefer did not touch Al-Nashiri with the power drill.

    Dig Through Interrogation Reports 2009

  • The debriefer took an unloaded semiautomatic handgun and simulated a bullet being chambered twice near Mr. Nashiri's head.

    Special Prosecutor to Probe CIA Handling of Terror Suspects 2009

  • Henry Sterling, his debriefer, a short and stylish man whose days at the Moscow Embassy taught him to appreciate a finely tailored Italian suit, and a finely tuned female Russian leg, picked him off the floor.

    Remember Me to the Motherland Joe Tripician 2009

  • With [redacted] consent, the debriefer entered the detainee's cell and revved the drill while the detainee stood naked and hooded.

    Dig Through Interrogation Reports 2009

  • On what was probably the same day, the debriefer used the power drill to frighten Al-Nashiri.

    Dig Through Interrogation Reports 2009

  •      Henry Sterling, his debriefer, a short and stylish man whose days at the Moscow Embassy taught him to appreciate a finely tailored Italian suit, and a finely tuned female Russian leg, picked him off the floor.

    Remember Me to the Motherland 2009

  • The debriefer used an unloaded semi-automatic handgun as a prop to frighten Al-Nashiri into disclosing information ....

    Dig Through Interrogation Reports 2009

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