Abu Ghraib

The question surrounding the United States today is should prisoners have rights and if they should what rights do they deserve to have and which ones should be stripped away from them. Some people believe that if a person commits a crime that they do not deserve to have any rights at all, but others may argue that everyone even a criminal should have some type of rights given to them. Prisoners must have several basic rights because they cannot fend for themselves while behind bars. When…

Former FBI agent Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. served undercover as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for twenty-one years. Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on the U.S. by Al Qaeda, Rodrigues was assigned to the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center where he was then responsible for developing and implementing methods for capturing terrorists and collecting their intelligence. In his New York Times Bestseller, Hard Measures, Rodriguez discusses the controversial…

American government know about the scandal, but large branches of the government ranging from the CIA to the President of the United States knew about the crimes. According to the Global Policy Forum, “Gruesome stories of mistreatment occurring at the Abu Ghraib prison, outside of Baghdad surfaced.” Stories of burning, strangulations and mock executions were unsettling. Meanwhile high ranking officials assigned to the case, dismissed it as the case of a few,“ bad apples.” The denial of…

Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: Then and Now Austin Groshens PSYC C101 December 3, 2017 Cerro Coso Community College Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: Then and Now Stanley Milgram’s 1963 experiment on obedience tested an individual’s wiliness to follow the instructions of authority figures. Milgram wanted to determine if people would harm others, even giving them a shock at the level as to cause death, on the orders of another. The results showed people, when…

Standard interrogation procedures failed to produce what the Administration deemed to be “actionable intelligence;” consequently, the Administration ordered detainees being held in Guantanamo, the Abu Ghraib prison, and the Bagram Air Force Base be forced to endure degrading tactics, such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation, to coerce confessions and produce information. The 2002 Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memorandum, which…

Torture, for most people using this word usually brings up bad meanings or memories. I think sometimes people will avoid this word or using this word because it makes them uncomfortable. One definition is “intense physical or mental suffering, something that causes pain or to inflict pain upon; to cause to suffer” (Webster’s Standard Dictionary). That does not sound pleasant, other definitions aren’t any better. Another dictionary says it like this “anguish of the body or mind, the infliction of…

Torture is a method of interrogation that the government uses to receive information they need out of suspects, so they could potentially stop future attacks on the U.S. Torture can be looked at as something horrible and inhumane, but it can also be seen as something the government must do to keep the public safe. It must be hard to have to hurt someone because they choose to put innocent lives in danger, but this is something the government has chosen to do. Whether or not the government has…

Torture is defined as the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering for purposes such as obtaining information, a confession, punishing, or intimidating someone. However, there are several other modern methods to get one to admit, and torture should not be deemed as one. Torture can result in not only physical affliction, but also emotional and psychological. Every human beings rights should always be respected and guaranteed regardless of the situation. Torture is…

How to Teach Children the Art of Obedience and Disobedience Since some social psychology professors proved a theory by several experiments, the theory has been accepted by the many social psychologists that human behavior can be markedly influenced and change by any situation, even though sometimes the changes of behaviors were not ethically right. Stanley Milgram, a professor of psychology at Yale University conducted a series of social psychology experiments to verify how ordinary German…

This is evidence of disaster capitalism being in opposition of human development. With little oversight of the government contractors, human rights violations were overlooked. An example of this is the Abu Ghraib prison. Torture and mistreatment of prisoners was overlooked by the contractors that ran the prison because they could not be held accountable due to loopholes in laws. Also, many Iraqis were stripped of habeas corpus to further justify the mistreatment…