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Edited by AllahRidesCamels:
12/12/2014 12:09:21 AM
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Should It Be Legal: Special on CIA Released Documents
Due to the released documents, I found this to be appropriate and I haven't seen much about this subject.
CIA files were given to the Senate by Pres. Obama which details accounts of threats of sexual torture with a broomstick, sleep depravation for 100+ hours, and "anal hydration". These are not exaggerations on my end. These reports were made post-9/11. These tortures were used on known terrorists to find the whereabouts of others.
So the topic is, do you think this torture should be legal? Is this something America should endorse?
Many are appalled by the actions of the CIA calling it "Un-American" and breaks their own moral code. They say it should be illegal and the CIA should apologize.
Others say that it was justified for the greater good of the people. The terrorists deserved it and it led to many intelligence victories which the CIA claimed to have helped the war on terror.
Thoughts? Do you think it was right to release the documents in the first place? Was torture the best decision?
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2 RepliesI'm halfway through reading it right now and I have to tell you it's quite sickening to say the least. Even though torture or "enhanced interrogation" is allowed to coerce prisoners at that level, the information they actually received from those methods was consistently wrong or was about information that they didn't even need. I mean for god sake the CIA even recognized that torture does not yield very accurate information and yet they continued to use the methods. So one case that I read in the report is that they captured this developmentally challenged kid and used him as leverage to get information out of his parents. They tortured him for thirty days and would send videos of him crying until the parents coughed up the information and the information they got was wrong. Not only is that morally wrong to use an innocent person as leverage to gain information but it is also illegal under US guidelines due to his lack of mental competency. So in short I really don't think it should be legal because it yields no results and it will always be subject to abuse, no matter the country.
