Waterboarding

There is no contesting that there is major debate surrounding warfare of any kind, whether in terms of man-to-man combat warfare on battle grounds, modern warfare with the use of more advanced technology such as UAVs and drones or the more contemporary cyber warfare. Debates concerning the legality, morality and cost-benefit analysis of these kinds of warfare has filled the rhetoric of policy analysts, scholarly academics and national leaders on international frontiers. With the Middle-East and…

Those Who Do Not Learn From History are Doomed to Repeat It “The management of opinions and attitudes by the direct manipulation of social suggestion.” Lynette Finch perfectly describes the word propaganda in her article Physical Propaganda: The War of Ideas During the First Half of the Twentieth Century. In simpler terms propaganda is used by the media or government to manipulate the thoughts of individuals to coincide include with their (usually) political agenda.Throughout the times humans…

“We tortured some folks.” Barack Obama, President of the United States, said in response to the release of the CIA torture report when he addressed post-9/11 America. Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA of spying on the Senate’s intelligence committee. John Brennan, director of the CIA, denied that accusation. However, an investigation brought forth the truth; the CIA had penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee and found that the Senate was preparing a report…

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…

The significance of President Obama’s proposal of closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center could not be more delayed from both a moral and justice standpoint. A case in point is that the infamous detention center continues negatively to be seen as an inhumane facility that violated the human rights and lack of due process for detainees. On January 22, 2009, President Obama’s proposal of closing the detention facility in one year showed the slightest of promises to say the least. For example,…

do not need to be on the streets.The first question that they need to ask themselves asks if normal citizens that comment crimes big or little, are at risk of the horrible police mistreatment and misconduct like electrocution,mock executions,waterboarding, and some more brutal things like asphyxiating with plastic bags,beatings and even rapings by the police officers that are supposed to protect all citizens of each and every town or city that is in the country of the united states not hurt…

The United States has always gone to great lengths in order to be the most dominant power in the world, whether economically, militarily, socially etc. In order to be so advanced, the United States has evolved and grown to be able to gather lots of information and intelligence from around the world that concerns its own prosperity. Currently, the most dominant channel of gathering foreign information is the CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency was created to gather information on foreign policy…

“We don’t torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country,” said by the former 43rd President of the United States of America, George W. Bush. President Bush has the right to talk about the usage of torture and how it relates to the United States of America, because the controversial topic of whether torture was justified or not rose during his presidency. In the month of September in the year of 2001, the United States experienced one of its most…

The morality and use of torture has been a growing debate in United States politics, especially since the September 11 terrorist attacks. One popular argument uses the logic of a famous Renaissance philosopher, Niccoló Machiavelli, to justify the use of torture. In his book The Prince, Machiavelli lends advice on how to be an effective political leader. He begins by describing different ways a man, or in this case a prince, can establish and maintain a state: through “fortune” (28), “prowess”…

Guantánamo Bay detention camp Legal assignment Guantanamo bay detention centre a. Identify and describe a contemporary human rights issue The Guantanamo Bay detention camp (also known as GITMO), is a US detention facility located on the coast of Guantanamo Bay in south-eastern Cuba, on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. It was built in 2002 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and subsequent military operations in Afghanistan. The detention centre was used to house Muslim militants and…