Waterboarding

the place where the United States would train military personnel how to torture combatants. In fact, O’Shaughnessy’s article highlights this connection with an observation about the military being “ready with their electrodes, thumbscrews and waterboarding equipment to defend “western Christian civilization”. Many had been brought to a peak of perfection in their trade in the US itself or in its bases in the Panama canal zone by US instructors” (1). Furthermore, Costa-Garvas’ inclusion of…

Qaeda members. Some people believe that “CIA personnel decided to initiate a program of brutal interrogation techniques in violation of U.S. law, treaty obligations, and our values” (Mukasey 1). It is reported that the CIA used a technique called waterboarding. This technique, in no way brutal or torturous, puts a subject on their back with their…

Columbus first landed in Guantánamo Bay in 1494, naming it Puerto Grande. US Marines didn’t set foot on Guantánamo until 1898 during the Spanish-American war. The Marines were seeking refuge from a Hurricane. Guantánamo Naval Station was erected in 1903 (National Geographic). The site was originally a refugee camp but later would become a detention center known for its intelligence operations In 2002 under the bush administration Guantánamo began to use torture techniques claiming these…

extreme lengths to get we wants. In his own words, “ I think we 've become very weak and ineffective…..ISIS must think we are a little bit on the weak side." What Donald Trump is saying is that if ISIS does not play by the rules why should we, waterboarding (torture) will allow for us show that we are willing to whatever is necessary…

Case Study – The CIA’s Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program The most recent, publicly acknowledged example of a covert action program with dubious moral footing is the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program (RDI), authorized by President George W. Bush in the days following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In 2009 by Executive Order, President Obama ended the CIA program and prohibited the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), including water-boarding. The President…

Quite apart from the fact that there is a general agreement that torture is morally wrong, the prohibition of torture is also enshrined in fundamental conventions like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. From a moral point of view, we agree that torture is ‘evil in itself’ (mala in se) : the act is inherently wrong by nature, independent of the law. This means that it is not required to base it on a legal rule to prove that…

Guantanamo Bay is a detention camp located in the southern tip of Cuba operated by the U.S. military (Fetini np). The detention facility was created after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York when Americans felt threatened by the uncertainty of terrorism (Fetini np). President Bush established the detention facility to campaign the elimination of terrorism and their support networks (Fetini np). Guantanamo Bay was established to hold individuals’ captive during military…