Waterboarding

Torture is inflicting pain on someone to get them to say or do something.Torture is one of the crimes that humans have committed for many centuries. Many rulers used torture to gain insight into their enemies movements and plans and used torture to gain insight on their subjects actions. Today torture is frowned upon, and no one wants to admit that it is happening. Those who admit the relevance of torture today want it to end, they know that it can leave mental and physical scars. Torture is…

You awaken in a dark room, with no recollection of how you got there. You realize that you sit across from a few men, with a table separating from you. Next to the men you see a bucket filled with water and a rag. You are blinded by a bright white light and one of the men bangs on the table and says, “We know you are with the terrorists. So where are they hiding?” You answer almost immediately saying that you’re not a terrorist and have no idea. The men ask again and you give the same answer.…

“Majid Khan's ‘lunch tray,’ consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins was ‘pureed’ and rectally infused,” (Senate Intelligence Committee). This is but one of the atrocities performed upon the prisoners of the CIA at one of numerous black site prisons. In discussion of modern American foreign policy, one controversial issue has been torture. On the one hand, some people argue that torture is a necessary practice that proactively saves American lives. On the other hand, other…

The Central Intelligence Agency also known as the CIA was created by created by President Franklin D Roosevelt as an addition to the OSS or Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1942. William J. Donovan was elected by President Roosevelt to be the lead analyst of the new intelligence agency. Soon after World War two ended the OSS was abolished leaving the CIA as the main intelligence insight for the United States. After the death of Franklin D Roosevelt, Vice President Truman took office on…

Interrogation has been used as a way of convicting suspicious criminals of their crimes and eliciting useful information since the medieval period. In addition, there are several methods that detectives and law officials can use to gain the needed information and question efficiently. However, one of the methods that is used is considered to be the most secretive and most intimidating of all: torture. Torture is defined by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) as an “act by which…

detainees are treated like they're terrorist. These detainees are being waterboarded, stripped of their dignity, water doused and deprived of sleep “These Are The 13 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” The CIA Used On Detainees” Association Press. Waterboarding for example is used to simulate a drowning sensation by strapping the detainees to a board sloped downwards and covering their face with a washcloth or something of that nature then pour a large amount of water into their breathing…

Usama ibn Mohammed ibn Awad ibn Ladin, also known as Osama bin Laden, was the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on September 11th. Bin Laden was responsible for 2,977 overall 9/11 deaths that include the strike at the Pentagon and the airliner crash in Shanksville, Pa.” (McCoy). After a decade in hiding, Bin Laden was found and killed in his compound in Pakistan. While this execution was justified and necessary, many events leading up to it were not. Many individuals who were thought to…

After the infamous September 11, 2001 attacks, the White House made torture its secret weapon in the war on terror. According to renowned history professor Alfred McCoy, Washington chose the CIA as the instrument used to fight against Al Qaeda. Surprisingly, Washington’s quick recourse to torture in the hunt for Al Qaeda replicated the same outcome of anger among the local population and alienation of the American people from the larger war effort first seen during the “dirty” Vietnam war…

Equality For feMALE As loads of crime reports come in, only the ones against guys are at the top; while the charges against girls are at the bottom. The news is on and there is a report on a sexual assault that a male committed and the world is in shambles. The world thinks that he deserves to rot in prison. Although they are not wrong, the news is not informing the nation on the case against a female teacher having a sexual relationship with a student. It is just another regular day in…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) had 50 Member States participating in the final drafting. When ratified in 1948, all but eight of the nations agreed upon it, even with the eight nations abstaining from the agreement, there were no dissents (United Nations, 2016). Every article within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is significant. However, an article that is very important to me personally, is article five. Article five clearly states that nobody has a right to…