Torturing Methods

                The torturing of many suspected terrorist has blown up the media lately. It seems like all we have to talk about is which terrorist group is the worst. But the stuff in the news is no longer about which group is the worst it’s how we are torturing the suspected members of those groups. The biggest issue now is the methods we are using, to torture them for information about the suspected terrorist group. A large investigation by the CIA has brought out many secrets about these places that we never knew before.

                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.