subject to horrendous “enhanced interrogation” techniques such as waterboarding‚ hypothermia‚ stress positions‚ and sleep deprivation. Martin describes torture as “… a stain on our great country.” Even though torture has been known to produce answers and in return save lives‚ it is still an immoral act. The point of torture in Guantanamo Bay is to extract information from prisoners of war to aid the war effort in Afghanistan and Iraq. Waterboarding is an “enhanced interrogation” technique used by the
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Is it ever ethically justified to torture a terrorist to save millions of innocent lives‚ or is it always unjustifiable to torture a person? Imagine one summer day when all the news stations broadcast a message saying that a terrorist has planted a nuclear bomb in New York City and that the bomb will detonate in approximately one hour and two million civilians will parish. The news then says that the terrorist has been captured‚ but the only way to find out the key information to stop the detonation
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during questioning‚ deprivation of light and auditory stimuli‚ and use of detainees’ individual phobias to induce stress to obtain information from Al Qaeda members in captivity. Many current and former US officials still argue that the these “enhanced interrogation techniques “were not torture. However‚ according to the United Nations Committee against Torture and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture have clearly stated that these techniques are cruel punishments in violation of the laws of Armed Conflict
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commanding officer of all Iraq detention facilities‚ Brigadier General Janis Karpinski‚ was reprimanded for dereliction of duty and demoted to the rank of Colonel on May 5‚ 2005. Col. Karpinski has denied knowledge of the abuses‚ claiming that the interrogations were authorized by her superiors and performed by
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Overall‚ the last decade and a half have been forgettable and largely a mistake on the US’s behalf. The entire war on terror failed as a whole with ground troops fighting despite early success with the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan following 9/11. Yet‚ afterwards‚ the Taliban resurged and the USMNT did little to quell this resurgence. In Afghanistan‚ more than three hundred thousand Afghan civilians died during the bombing campaign(Choices 187)‚ demonstrating a horrible and tragic failure
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When one talks about intelligence work in today’s day and age‚ it is hard to know exactly where to begin. From the humble beginnings of US intelligence in the WWII OSS‚ the modern intelligence apparatus has ballooned into over a dozen different agencies operating in different fields of concern. However‚ when asked to identify one the average person will most likely immediately think of the CIA‚ the big daddy of all intelligence agencies. While each agency has its own area of expertise‚ and while
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the detectives expect any confession and will not let him go until he gives them some sort of information. In this case‚ the person of interest‚ who is under tons of stress‚ will invent some story to appease the detective. Because this sort of interrogation places the suspect under a lot of stress‚ society believes that it should not be
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step-grandson’s injuries‚ which they received while serving in Afghanistan (Kahn). “Enhanced interrogation”‚ as torture has been termed by the George W. Bush administration‚ may not work. The Central Intelligence Agency has confirmed this (Constantini). Retired Army lieutenant general Harry Soyster‚ said waterboarding produces “bad intelligence”. “It ruins the subject‚ makes them useless for further interrogation. And it damages our credibility around the world." Soyster a was former director of
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Guantanamo Bay The United States detention facility located at Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba was opened in 2002 by George W. Bush to hold enemy combatants from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are currently three sections in Guantanamo Bay: Camp Delta‚ Camp Echo‚ and Camp Iguana. Insurgents are kept at Guantanamo Bay for a variety of reasons and there are CIA interrogators at the camp to gather information. On January 22‚ 2009‚ President Obama signed an executive order closing the Guantanamo Bay detention
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() developed the Cognitive Interview (CI) 30 years ago. The results gained significant attentions for further research in which the CI improve the effectiveness of collecting corrected details. In later years‚ Geiselman and Fisher () developed an enhanced version of the CI (ECI). Given that these two versions of the CI might not be well-fit into specific population‚ such as children or old adults‚ researchers have developed a modified version of the CI (MCI). Two meta-analysis has been conducted to
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