Cia Interrogations And Torture Methods

Torture is something that is known as wrong internationally. Torture is “deliberate, systematic or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons acting on the orders of authority, to force a person to yield information, to confess, or any other reason” (World Medical Association, 1975, pg.1). There is a general consensus that there is a right to be free from any kind of torture as it can be found in many different human rights treaties around the world. The treaties show that all of the thoughts about torture are pointing away from the right to torture someone no matter what the case

     The CIA is one of the U.S. foreign inteligency agencies, responsible for getting and analyzing information about foreign government, corporations, individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. government. The State Department's Bureau or inteligence and reserch and theDefense Department'sdefense inteligence agency comprise the other two. Its headquarters is inLangley, Virginia, across the Potomac River from D.C. The Agency, created in 1947 by President Harry S. Trueman, is a descendant of the Office of stratigic Services(OSS) of World War 2. The OSS was dissolved in October 1945 but

The CIA, otherwise known as the Central Intelligence Agency, is a federal agency that is independent and has the responsibilities of providing the country of the United States with national security intelligence. The CIA is in charge of gathering information that is going on from other countries in order to help our own national security to become stronger, and to be able to protect the citizens of the United States better. However, what happens when the CIA tries to protect it’s citizens by screwing over other countries? What happens when the CIA is responsible for destroying other countries’ governments or placing leaders where we do not belong as a country to try and control politics that we should not even be involving ourselves in. While the CIA is meant to have good intentions for providing our country with national security, a lot of times the United States is responsible for meddling in affairs we never belonged in which cause harm, devastation, or death to the countries we force ourselves upon.

The CIA's original job was primarily intelligence gathering, but when Communism started to spread, the National Security Council directed that the agency take part in political, covert, paramilitary, and economic operations. When the Korean War broke out, the CIA performed these operations, it also had additional requirements to support the combat forces.

Based on information from osu.edu, CIA have no law enforcement functions within the U.S., however, the FBI has rights for them to enforce laws within the U.S. Within the U.S., the CIA is prohibited from collecting information on “U.S. Personal”, which include U.S. citizens, resident aliens, legal immigrants, U.S. corporations, no matter where they are located.The CIA enforces foreign policies in other countries, such as CIA passing on useful information to the U.S. military leaders during combat. The FBI is aloud to handle things within the U.S.. Things like kidnapping, tax evasions, and bank robberies. The FBI and CIA has boundaries for a reason and they would be punished if they break them.

There are some that do not constitute the United States ' treatment of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as torture because there were different definitions of the word. According to the Third Geneva Convention, torture is defined as "acts of violence" and "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental is intentionally inflicted." After the September 11, 2001 attack, the United States changed its definition of torture to "physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." To be regarded as torture, the act "must cause some lasting, though not necessarily permanent damage." Some disregard these acts as simply cruel treatment and do

Indeed, waterboarding can actually lessen the brain’s ability to extract memory.” (Vivian Giang, “Neuroscience Proves Torturing Terrorists Won’t Keep us Safe”) There is scientific evidence that supports the idea that putting suspects in extreme situations only makes them tell less truthful things. Citing the work of the professor of experimental brain research Shane O’Mara, from University of Dublin’s Trinity College and director of its Institute of Neuroscience, there is little evidence that torture reveals useful

Imagine awaking in the morning, going downstairs and preparing the morning meal. While enjoying the sunshine through the kitchen window along with a chai tea latte, the news on the television suddenly changes from the mundane to chaotic confusion, disaster has struck! The implausible has just happened and the nation is in chaos. This disaster could happen at any moment and at any point across the globe. If the only method of prevention to this traumatic event is by the skilled technique of information extraction known as torture, would it not be the government’s obligation to the people to ensure this method of prevention was exercised? When considering the threat from extremists, the United States government must allow for the use of

Interrogational torture is one of the many tough ethical questions that people debate about in the United States. Is it right or is it wrong? Many believe that the United States does not practice intense interrogational acts such as torture. Many people have fought to abolish any form of torture while many fight to keep some forms of it to help keep the peace. Whether you believe in it or not, torture is and will always be an ethical dilemma that comes up.

Should Interrogation Techniques That Some Consider Torture, Such as Waterboarding, Be a Legal Option? This has been a controversial issue for a long time, the fact that it’s supported by some and others not so much has also been debated. Hillary clinton does not support this, where as Donald Trump is in agreement with it. Also Should the United States Send Ground Troops to Fight ISIS? The war in the middle east is still alive and raging on, and the U.S involvement is an often discussed issue. Should we or shouldn't we be over there? These are both good question in which we will discuss. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have almost opposite opinions everything.

Providing for the common defense means that the United States government must preserve the rights, freedom, and safety of the nation as a whole. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) fulfills this goal, as the agency collects, analyzes, and processes information at an international level and utilizes the data to further bolster our nation’s intelligence and security against foreign countries. Without the CIA, we would not be able to be one of the strongest nations on the planet.

The CIA used to interfere with internal politics and it would also plan coups and also assassinations. In 1953, the CIA was responsible of removing Mohamed Mossadegh, who was then elected prime minister of Iran .The US then put in a dictator who would rule ruthlessly and was responsible for the bad bleed that came up between Iran and the US (Weiner, 2007). CIA was also responsible for destruction of democracy around the globe and many people died as a result of CIA

There is a little of that, but that’s only part of the story. According to the CIA website, the employees of the CIA provided intelligence to the President, the National Security Council, and all other government officials who make and carry out US national security policy. They do this by providing timely and accurate information on foreign threats, and perform counterintelligence or other special activities relating to foreign intelligence and national security when asked by the president. Counterintelligence, is used to prevent threats from obtaining secret information, and in some cases, spreading disinformation to confuse them. When tasked to a specific project, the CIA follows something called the Intelligence Cycle. this is a five-step process that ensures they do their job correctly by making them work through a system of checks and

It replaced the Central Intelligence Group, which had been established in 1946 to coordinate the intelligence gathering actives of various military branches and departments of state. Prior to the creation of the CIA there were only small post war intelligence organizations and the office of strategic affairs. The CIA first served as the primary civilian intelligence gathering organization in the government. In later time the DIA was formed to take sole responsible as the main Military intelligence body. The roles established by the Act of 1947 for the new CIA would be an independent agency under the supervision of the NSC and would conduct both analysis and clandestine activates, but have no role in policy making and no law enforcement powers. The DCI would be confirmed by the Sensate and could be wither civilian or an officer on detail from his home service. The CIA also was to be much more- it was a separate agency designed not only to gather intelligence but also to carry out Covert operation in foreign

Sleep deprivation started as one of the tamer forms of torture used by the U.S. military. Sleep deprivation is considered as an acceptable forms of torture because it doesn’t leave any physical scars, but leaves a huge and unbearable emotional scar. This is the reason why it has become one of the preferred methods of torturing prisoners and it respects international law and human rights. Keeping someone awake for hours or days at a time is an effective way to break the will of a prisoner causing a whole range of undesirable ill effects from cognitive impairment, psychosis, breaking down the immune system and even causing heart defects and cardiovascular disease. But there are disadvantages when using sleep deprivation as torture because the