Interrogation Techniques

Interrogation Techniques

Ana Carranza

POL 201

Adrienne Dicerbo

October 22, 2012

Interrogation Techniques

Since the attack on September 11 President Bush designated Guantanamo Bay as a place to where detainees would be held, but did American soldiers take the correct way to interrogate detainees. 

As detainees are held in Gitmo without trail people have raised some questions on how they have been treated and how they have been interrogated to get answers. The use of force, mental torture, threats and inhumane treatment of any kind is prohibited by law. But the use of force that the US soldiers is using is not necessary to gain the cooperation of the detainees therefore the use of force is a poor technique that may cause the detainee to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear. “In a conventional war, enemy soldiers can be captured and held as prisoners of war until the end of combat. In the criminal justice system, an arrest for a violent crime will lead to a charge, followed by a guilty plea or jury trial” (Los Angeles Times, 2012). As I read this statement I cannot find anywhere in this statement that states that anyone that is captured for any crime can be kept as a prisoner without trail.

The Bush administration defends the treatment of the detainees that were somewhat involved in the 911 attack at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Some of the tactics that are being used on the inmates include being forced to bark like a dog and wear pictures of scantily clad women around their necks. Reasoning for that kind of torture was said that it helped get the inmates to reveal vital information. “Vice President Dick Cheney, who has said there are no plans to close the Guantanamo Bay camp, said the detainees are "treated far better" than similar detainees would be by other countries. "Those who most urgently advocate that we shut down Guantanamo probably don't agree with our policy anyway," Cheney said. (Church, Albert T, 2005). I do not see how...