Enhanced Interrogation Paper

There is a distinct difference between an interrogation and a set of interview questions. Sometimes, they are used interchangeably, but there is a specific feature distinguishing one from the other. Whether it is accusatory or not is what differentiates an interrogation from a set of interview questions. An interview is non-accusatory or, in other words, it does not blame or put guilt on the subject of the questions (Inbau, Reid, Buckley, & Jayne, 2013). Besides just being non-accusatory, an interview is used merely to gather information in any environment, and it is normally unstructured (Inbau, Reid, Buckley, & Jayne, 2013). Whereas an interview is non-accusatory, an interrogation is accusatory and places guilt or blame on the subject at hand (Inbau, Reid, Buckley, & Jayne, 2013). It involves persuasion in any means possible to get to the truth in a controlled environment …show more content…
Whereas a regular interrogation uses persuasion to get information, an enhanced interrogation uses persuasion in a different way. An enhanced interrogation is the use of certain, usually harsh tactics by government officials such as the military or the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to coax information or a confession out of people, especially after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 2014). Enhanced interrogations have been used for a long time. They have been around for thousands of years, but the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began using enhanced interrogation techniques around the year 1950 (McCoy, 2006). The techniques used in these interrogations became especially prominent in the years of the Cold War and the Vietnam War which would be between the years of 1954 to 1975 (McCoy, 2006). In the early 50s, the CIA began brainstorming ideas for emotional and psychological means of persuasion so no touch would be necessary (McCoy,