One of
the places that the CIA talked about was a place called the Sand Pit. This place
was perfect because is possessed a dungeon like atmosphere where they kept all
of the prisoners. One of the typical torture techniques most of us would think
of is water boarding. I found out in through this investigation that
waterboarding wasn’t actually one of the techniques used in in the sand pit. Some
of the people explained that we would literally beat and torture these
prisoners to the point of almost disfunctionality. We actually pushed some prisoners to death. This
is too far and we need to make changes to our torture techniques.
Now onto
another article I read, that told about how two former Air Force psychologists came
to $80 million dollars through developing torture techniques. These two men
prior to this newfound occupation had no intelligence of how to interrogate,
tactics of torture, information about al Qaeda, these men were rookies as some
may say. But we trusted them to make up new torture methods for our country. I can
already see how this made issues for our ways of not getting information out of
our torturees. The people who make the methods on how they get tortured have no
experience in this field.
Here is a list of techniques I found that tells about what different torture methods
were used in theses prisons. One of the main methods is sexual assault or
humiliation they would sexually assault the prisoners and or make them be naked
and humiliate them in front of others. Then onto things such as sleep
deprivation and mock burials where they would put said prisoner into a casket
and pretend to bury them as if they were stuck in there till death. This technique
would seem effective but most of the time these techniques acquired us no new
information making them ultimately useless.
I believe
we should torture terrorists for the just reason of why we have them in our
custody in the first place. Also if torturing them can get us useful information
then I believe we should continue doing it. One thing that is for sure is that
we need to find and or hire people that are trained and have studied how to do
so before just asking random people to take care of it for us.