Torture to extract information from
important individuals has been part of war for centuries. Some may argue this
information needs to be extracted by means of torture to save American lives.
This rings true to a certain extent. The people administrating this torture, be
it the CIA or whoever, need to realize that as humans we all have certain
unalienable rights. I myself believe torture is an effective way of extracting
information, but the horrors described in the articles I have read are
something no human should have to endure.
Things
like anal feeding and making inmates wear a diaper have nothing to do with
extracting important information, they are just cruel techniques to prolong
suffering. I‘d think things like mock
burial, mock execution, sleep deprivation
and water boarding would be much more effective ways of extracting
information without disfiguring the human body.
I
also think the CIA should not allow two doctors who have limited experience in
torture to develop types of torture for their organization. Eighty million dollars is far too much to pay
someone for coming up with ways to scare people. A kid in junior high could
have come up with their techniques. For all we now these two doctors could have
just searched google for ways to torture and be cruel to a human being and
walked away with eighty million in tax payer dollars.
From an article I read
on www.vicenews.com they claim that no
unique or important information was extracted from prisoners detained in these
so called black prisons. The article also talks about threats made by CIA to prisoners
threatening to kill their families. One
CIA agent even said to a prisoner that he would never be put on trial because
no one can know what I’ve done to you here. This only makes it more obvious
that our tactics in interrogation need to be refined to make them both more
effective and less brutal.
https://news.vice.com/article/senate-torture-report-finds-the-cia-was-less-effective-and-more-brutal-than-anyone-knew
