Enhanced Interrogation Research Paper

In history War has always been fought in the open with a clear division between ally and foe; civilian and warrior, but today all of that has changed. Today war is no longer fought in the open or is fought in the dark with both eyes closed against an unseen enemy that follows no rules. Currently, the world is at war with terrorism, the enemy that hides in the dark, and the resources available to combat this foe are limited. One of these limited resources is the use of enhanced interrogation methods. The use of enhanced interrogation methods in the past has provided useful information. and why has no one ever asked the public their up in point of view on enhanced interrogation? After all, the military should be allowed to use enhanced interrogation
An example of such an act can be found in an article titled “Where Are Media When The Jihadist Torture and Murder Americans” by Oliver North. On March 1984, the CIA station Chief, William Buckley, was abducted and taken to a Beirut dungeon. There he was tortured and murdered, then photographs and recordings of his beatings were sent back to the CIA director. The media concluded that his treatment was the consequences of working for the CIA (Head 82). The first thing that comes to mind is why would the media brush an event as severe as this under the rug? However, the media has leaked information to the public that wasn't entirely true. For example, an “FBI agent saw the guards bring a growling dog into the interrogation room, which he assumed was being used to intimidate Qahtani- although subsequent investigation showed that dogs at Gitmo were used to escort prisoners back and forth to their cells, not to threaten them. Since that detail was included in the FBI e-mails, and later leaked, the idea that dogs were used to abuse prisoners would become a fixture in the false portrait that was being painted of the goings-on at Gitmo.” (Herman). This is a wonderful Example of how the media has taken information and turned it inside out to create a more compelling story. Another example of this is an interview of Muhammad al-Qahtani, Muhammad told reporters that he had been sitting in his cell when soldiers entered his room and beat him before emptying two canisters of tear gas on him and then after all that they beat him again. Of course, it was all a lie, just another piece of the Gitmo myth that was constructed to ruin the Bush Administration (Herman). What Herman means is the media has been piecing together falsified facts and has created a myth about the happenings in Guantanamo