Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

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

In the Criminal Justice system, the main goal is justice or in other words, a fair consequence to match a criminal action. An obvious, yet unmentioned underlying goal is to prevent injustice. Many times, justice prevails, and this is why our system prevails today. However, when justice fails, it is key to look at the information offered in order to better the system and to repay those that have been failed by it. One area that has shown itself as flawed is the area of interrogations though many other areas will be presented throughout this paper as well. By examining five cases involving questionable interrogation and showing other system flaws, I will enlighten others as to how our justice system handles its flaws, and hopefully I will

One of the most controversial topics in the U.S. has been Enhanced Interrogation techniques- also believed to be torture. These practices are said to be implemented on suspected terrorists to recover possible information of future attacks on America, although many have concluded that this practice was created out of fear after the attack on September 11, 2001 (What Motivated CIA Torture?, 2014). Some of these practices include sleep deprivation, stress positions and even insects inside of a confinement box. One of the most controversial of all of the tactics is waterboarding or essentially drowning. Abu Zubaydah, the Al Queda

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques have their situational uses. One major claim is the lauded Ticking Time Bomb scenario in which the case is laid out in a needs of the many versus the needs of the one format. The premise as given by Bob Brecher is thus, “Suppose there is good reason to think that someone has planted a bomb in a public place. And suppose there is good reason to think that it is going to go off in the next two hours or so, and that it is going to kill and maim dozens of people, maybe hundreds. The question is all too real. Imagine, to bring the example closer to home, that the police or the secret services had known that bombs were shortly to go off somewhere in Bali, Madrid, Lonon or Sharm-el-Sheikh in the attacks of 2004 and 2005. But no one knows where the bomb is – except one person, who is already in custody. Naturally they have no intention of revealing where the bomb is. Maybe they have planted it themselves; maybe not. Either way, they remain silent. Should they be tortured to force them to reveal where the bomb is?”(Torture and the Ticking Bomb 1). In this scenario there is substantial moral justification for torture. Consider this, law enforcement believes that torturing the target will save

The paramount duty and obligation of the criminal justice are the ability of the officers of the law to investigate crime and extract exhibit to facilitate the process of convicting accused in a court of law. Interrogation is one of the many means that law enforcement officers utilize in their bid to obtain concrete and relevant data and information to deter crime in their areas of jurisdiction. It is worth noting that evidence and forensic laboratory can provide relevant information that can lead to the arrest of accused, making it one of the most trusted and important sources of criminal information. However, most law enforcement individuals believe that information extracted through interrogation is of great value and thus, they feel that interrogation is an effective and reliable source of information. Interrogation process

Second, torture affects to prisoners’ ‘health badly. To torture is to make prisoners extremely hurt and pain, and then they will tell us some information that they know, so we would stop torturing them. Torture can cause death to prisoners if their bodies cannot stand for

Police interrogation and investigation techniques is an unpopular area that created tension between the public and police. Interrogation policies or procedures have been under scrutiny many a times in the past and has grown to incorporate the changing views and ideals of the public. However, the police still face criticism over their investigation and interrogation techniques from the community. Furthermore, the use of extreme or excessive force, by the police, in dealing with unideal situations is creating a rising tension between them and the community.

People argue that torture is necessary during interrogation to gain information that will save lives. There are a wide variety of situations that could happen during the process of interrogation, and not every circumstance can be prepared for. “Not every situation can be limited to the same set of rules and regulations” (Jacobs and Newton). The main argument used to justify the ethical use of torture is a ticking time-bomb situation. If the captured terrorist does not talk, hundreds of people

We are aware of some of these “enhanced interrogation techniques” from various leaks and the CIA’s torture report. Some of these techniques consist of rectal feeding and rehydration which is a debatable technique itself since it is thought to be a helpful method to dehydrate detainees who refused to eat. Another technique is the confinement in a box where detainees are kept inside small boxed for long periods of time. The most commonly heard about, waterboarding: where the detainee is strapped on the board tilted down, head to the ground while the face is being covered with a cloth and water is poured down making them have a drowning sensation. Other techniques also include beating and threats to their family members and loved ones, along with

Interrogation- questioning a suspect or witness by law enforcement authorities. Once a person being questioned is arrested, he/she is entitled to be informed of his/her legal rights, and in no case may the interrogation violate rules of due process.

Torture (Latin torquere, “to twist”), in law, infliction of severe bodily pain either as punishment, or to compel a person to confess to a crime, or to give evidence in a judicial proceeding. Among primitive peoples, torture has been used as a means of ordeal and to punish captured enemies. Examination by torture, often called the “question,” has been used in many countries as a judicial method. It involves using instruments to extort evidence from unwilling witnesses.

Since the brutal attack America received on September 11, 2001, the United States government gave authorization for the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” to be performed on terrorism suspects, captured and held within U.S. custody. To obtain useful information that could possibly, save thousands more lives in the future, than were lost that fateful day. It was also used, as a method to help increase current protection methods, and to obtain information and/or location of other suspected terrorist who were known to be involved in plotting and planning future attacks on our American homeland (Human Rights Watch, 2014).

Investigative questioning is interrogation between the time the suspect is arrested and taken to jail, and the officers will ask questions out of curiosity. Next, the Custodial interrogation will begin after the suspect is in custody inside an interrogation room. Custodial interrogation applies to the rules of the Fifth Amendment.

One of the best training programs to implement into the police department is the Reid interrogation techniques. Interrogation and interviewing techniques became popular in 1947 by John E. Reid and Associates. Joseph P. Buckley stated that “The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation is now the most widely used approach to question subjects in the world (Buckley P. J., 2000).” There three- parts to the Reid process for solving a crime. The first stage that should be taking is to collect and analyze relative information from the crime scene thing that offers insight to the possible suspect and determine the direction an investigation should take. The second stage of the process interviewing people of interest using Behavior Analysis Interview (BAI) (Buckley P. J., 2000). The Behavior Analysis Interview is a non-accusatory process that allows detectives to interview a suspect using a question and answer procedure to provoke a suspect to show non- verbal truthfulness or deception. The third stage, if the offender has not admitted to the crime an accusatory interrogation is administered (Leave no marks, 2007). The Reid interrogation technique is believed to be a fail proof technique ,however, there are some reservations against using this technique on juvenile offenders (Constitutional Law(n.d). Implementing the Reid technique into the police departments learning curriculum will truly

Over the past three decades the regularity of the specific techniques of torture has been marked: Placing a plastic bag over the head and holding it tightly at the back to induce suffocation (“dry submarine”); giving electro-shocks either directly onto the skin, or with water poured over the body and bare electric wires touched against the genitals, lips, ears, arms or legs; placing or tying a cloth over the face and pouring or dripping water over the cloth to induce gradual suffocation (“water cure”) while interrogators stand or place weight on the stomach; water is also poured directly into the nostrils or mouth; food deprivation; dental torture; amputation of any body part; being tied or forced to assume a stressful position.