Waterboarding

Waterboarding Torture has long been used by law enforcement agencies and governments to questions criminals and terrorists. It is used to coax confessions or to find out any sort of information that may lead to the arrest or capture of other criminals. Although the torturing of prisoners in the United States is strictly prohibited by the constitution, the government started using the tactic waterboarding against terrorists. Although the government says waterboarding has led to prevention on

The history of waterboarding goes back a lot further than most people even realize. The technique commonly referred to as "waterboarding" was first documented in the 14th century, but has been used on and off around the world since before the Spanish Inquisition1. The term waterboarding is actually a reference to two different techniques, with one of them being the more commonly used today. The first technique involves the pumping of water directly into a person's stomach. The other technique is

punishment was included in this. Anarchist would use this stimulation to their advantage. The CIA uses enhanced integration techniques and these techniques are aggressive. According to NPR “the waterboarding technique was physically harmful, including convulsions and vomiting” (Calamur, K). Waterboarding can also lead to the individual drowning which can lead to death in some cases. The enhanced techniques are inhumane.

method called waterboarding. Waterboarding was thought of by members of the Special Forces. It was used in a training called SERE, which means Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape. The main things needed for this torture is water, and a board of course. This is where it gets the name waterboarding. The goal of this paper is to insure people that doubt waterboarding is a torture, because waterboarding is a torture. In “Believe Me, It’s Torture”, Christopher Hitchens describes waterboarding in order

interrogation techniques includes “sleep deprivation, slapping, subjection to cold and simulated drowning, known as "waterboarding".”( CIA Tactics ) Take waterboarding for example, “in which a person is strapped on a board with a rag or cloth covering his or her face and doused with water” (Does Waterboarding Have) During the waterboarding, water will get into lungs and it is proven that waterboarding will cause profoundly traumatic to not only lungs, but also brain damage from oxygen deprivation, not to mention

meals given are completely white. This torture tactic is frequently employed by the Iranian government and the effects of this torture, while not physical, are lifelong. On the opposing end of the spectrum, an example of physical torture is waterboarding. Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. Torture is an extremely controversial topic

In Hitchens’s story, the majority of his detail is dedicated to his personal experience. Hitchens was brave enough to actually forbearance the torture of waterboarding. “I was very gentle yet firmly grabbed from behind, pulled to my feet, pinioned by my wrist (which were then cuffed to a belt), and cut off from sunlight by having a black hood pulled over my face.” (Hitchens, page 617). At this time, the trained men are starting to put Hitchens in the first steps of the torture. “Arms already lost

that was used on him in a training exercise. “It [waterboarding] is an overwhelming experience that induces horror and triggers frantic survival instincts.” (USA Today 1). He goes on to say, “It [congress] has deplored torture but never explicitly outlawed waterboarding.” (USA Today1). Waterboarding is a technique that induces the feeling of drowning by placing a cloth on a person’s face and then pouring water over them. Whether the use of waterboarding, or any other torture technique is ever justified

you “know” that there is a ticking bomb about to detonate? How do you “know” that this is the person who has that information? Ultimately you can’t “know” those things. You may highly suspect that someone has information, so then you green light waterboarding suspects. How do the authorities know you haven’t planted a bomb in downtown Chicago about to go off? They’ll have to torture you just to make sure. In at least one case, they were also "interrogating" the children of the detainee they thought

“The one lesson we 've learned from history is that we have not learned any of history 's lessons” (Unknown Author, n.d.). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) such as “waterboarding” and extraordinary rendition (aka “black sites”) by CIA agents for American intelligence interests and to analyze the drastically apposing views of the legalities, morality, and effectiveness of these methods. Is the CIA’s use of EITs and extraordinary rendition