anything that you are questioned of‚ these same people that took you are now using “enhanced interrogation techniques” upon you. These “enhanced interrogation techniques” include being hit‚ having screwdrivers that have been put under fire jabbed into your leg‚ waterboarding‚ threats to your life and your families’ lives‚ and many other things. What is being done is not interrogation. It is torture masquerading as interrogation. It is my belief that in the United States torture should have a more definite
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president said it was so. There are no such things as “enhanced interrogation methods.” That is the euphemism the Bush administration used in 2002 when they were redefining torture so the president could authorize it. There is never an excuse to torture a person‚ not even during war. It undermines our cause‚ endangers our soldiers on the battlefield by encouraging reciprocity‚ and it breeds more enemies of the United States than coercive interrogation methods will ever allow us to capture.
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branch is taking the necessary precautions to stay safe. With the Obama Administration’s war on terror‚ the executive branch is taking the necessary precautions to keep the nation safe with drone attacks‚ warrantless wiretapping‚ and advanced interrogation techniques. [Drone essay Ms. Devine has done] Wireless wiretapping also keeps the peace of the United States. As Steven G. Bradbury states in the pro CQR Essay about wiretapping‚ “taking precautions‚ such as wiretapping‚ helps keep America from
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inhumane‚ and excessive. In the movie‚ Zero Dark Thirty‚ directed by Kathryn Bigelow‚ it was mainly used for interrogations to obtain information from the detainees about certain people. In the film‚ there are many scenes that display the superficial layers of enhanced interrogation and gives the viewers an automatic response that torture is bad. While many viewers see that enhanced interrogation has many bad aspects‚ did they ever wonder about the good ones? How it helped to save many lives? How it
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Since September 11th 2001‚ the laws on torture have been at dispute in democracy. If there was a way to prevent the September 11th attacks then America should do anything in their power to get the information to save innocent lives of their citizens. Furthermore‚ intelligence is needed to find out who is responsible for these attacks. To get the needed intelligence we must have somebody that knows what happened and a way to extract the information. This is where torture would come into play. There
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militant terrorist organizations. Groups including the Taliban and primarily Al-Qaeda have been part of an ongoing violent conflict in the Middle East. Throughout these struggles with terrorists‚ the United States have employed various methods of interrogation and intelligence gathering which have included the torturing of prisoners overseas. While this practice was and still is today widely considered to be exceedingly deplorable‚ it has shown some advantages‚ none of which justify the means. According
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decisions. The consequences of these decisions would shape the country from that day forward. However‚ there was one decision that made the rest infinitely simpler by providing information to key government officials. That was the decision to use Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) on those detained as suspected terrorists. EITs take many forms such as waterboarding‚ forced stress positions‚ and humiliation‚ and these EITs made it possible for members of congress‚ the armed services‚ and even the President
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In 2001‚ Mohammed al Qahtani was captured by the U.S Force in Afghanistan. After being accused of being the 20th hijacker in the 9/11 attack by the White House‚ he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay‚ where he was subjected to extremely inhumane interrogation techniques that traumatized and degraded him brutally. For example‚ he was told that “a dog [was] held in higher esteem” than he was. The interrogators then taught him “lessons such as stay‚ come and bark” in order to “elevate his social status
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Cited: “2010 Complete Election Coverage: Should America Torture?” Should America Torture? N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 27 Mar. 2013. Cheney‚ Richard B. "Enhanced Interrogation Helps Keep America Safe." Presidential Powers. Greenhouse Press. Detroit‚ MI. 2010‚ n.d. Web. Cox‚ Larry. "CIA Agents Used Torture And Should Be Prosecuted." Opposing View Points. Greenhouse Press. N.p.‚ 2011. Web. "Statistics On Torture." PapBlog
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future horrific events: torture. If deemed necessary to ensure our nation’s national security‚ it is not only permissible‚ but also advisable that our country should exercise torture on prisoners who withhold valuable information. Using “enhanced interrogation techniques”‚ such as torture‚ on detainees in times of crisis not only gives our country a better chance at extracting valuable information‚ but also allows information to be obtained in a more timely manner. A prime example of when torture
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