¶ … Interrogation Techniques
Rodley (2000) defines torture as an authorized interrogation technique under which a person is harmed deliberately in order to force him to say or do something. Despite being forbidden by the International Law in the twentieth century international legal prohibitions, the act of torture still continues stealthily or in the open. This issue has resurfaced due to the growing fear of War of Terror and the WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction). This problem can be viewed with much more detail with the "ticking time bomb" theory.
Charles Krauthammer, the syndicated columnist and conservative political commentator, wrote in "The Truth about Torture" (2005) published in The Weekly Standard, that some changes be made to the Detainee Treatment Act (2005). The DTA was introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), forbidding all kinds of cruel treatment of the people in custody of the United States. However, Krauthammer suggests that there should be two exceptions to this Act: the ticking time bomb and the slower-fuse-high-value terrorist. Krauthammer didn't use expressions to make the audience sad since the audience of his essay were the government policymakers and the people who read The Weekly Standard, people who are in active politics, mature and wealthy...
Laws and Legal Limitations in the United States Have Affected the Use of Coercive Interrogation Techniques After the 9/11 attacks, the United States' government abandoned its policy going against torture. Many professionals devised the move like those from the health care, lawyers justifying it, with the higher levels of government authorizing it. A program deemed with psychological and physical abuse was used on the detainees stationed in Guantanamo Bay. Nonetheless,
Michael Crowe: A Case of Poor Interrogation Technique There is no single correct way to conduct an interrogation, just as there is no single correct way to write a novel or to design a building or to raise a child. However, there are certainly a number of incorrect ways to interrogate a subject, and the 2002 movie The Interrogation of Michael Crowe unfortunately demonstrates a number of them. "Unfortunately" because the
Despite the fact that there has been visible progress in the classification and documentation of different interrogation techniques, there is very little information about the manner in which police officers are trained and equipped with interrogation techniques and how often they apply various techniques (Cleary, H. M. D., & Warner, 2016). Little is also known about how the police officers employ the techniques with juveniles and with adults. This research
The Rationale for and the Efficacy of Torture during Interrogation Although information from interrogational torture is unreliable, it is likely to be used frequently and harshly. ==John W. Schiemann, 2012 Introduction The epigraph above is indicative of the growing consensus concerning the lack of efficacy of torture in providing interrogators with reliable concealed information Concealed information is the foundation of the majority of security issues. In most cases, concealed information is a situation
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In the event the intelligence detailed by the Israeli administration proves to be accurate with respect to nuclear weapons development, this office is reminded of the words of the late President John, F. Kennedy, spoken almost exactly 45 years ago to the day, on October 22, 1962, addressing the Soviet threat in Cuba: We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient
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