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Watch the PBS Frontline video, Secrets, Politics, and Torture (Links to an external site.) (May, 2015).
After viewing consider the following question: Do you think that enhanced interrogation techniques (torture), such as waterboarding, confinement in boxes, exposure to extreme heat and cold, and the other techniques mentioned in the video should ever be used by the U.S. government (specifically here, the FBI or CIA) under any circumstances?
Please delineate your answer by addressing the issues of morality, effectiveness, international legality and the possibility of retribution, and the need to prevent further attacks?
A transcript is available on the website (Links to an external site.).
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Running head: THE USE OF ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
The Use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
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Running head: THE USE OF ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
The use of enhanced interrogation techniques
The “Secrets, Politics, and Torture” video by Kirk (2015) discusses the use of
enhanced interrogation techniques by the US government following the September 11 attacks.
These techniques constituted several forms of torture such as waterboarding, confinement in
boxes, and exposure to extreme heat or cold, among others. The US government should not
use torture under any circumstances. Below are some of the reasons why these techniques
should not be used.
The use of torture violates both local and international laws. As has been described in
the video, the use of torture started log before Congress pass...
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