Torture Memos

“Torture is prohibited, and committing it is a crime, under both the law of the United States and international law”- Oren Gross. The interrogation methods we used against captured suspected terrorist were a wrong way to get the information we needed, and this methods should never again be used in a country like ours. Torture is illegal and no one should be aloud to do it in this country. What they did to these terrorists is no doubt torture. We convicted Japanese for using waterboarding and other techniques like the ones we used in World War two. There is evidence that shows that enhanced interrogation was not used to get the truth out of this suspected terrorist, but o get what they wanted to hear out of them. In our case, they wanted to find a link between Al Quaida and Saddam Hussein.

Furthermore, one of the most common methods they used was waterbording, how can they say this method is not torture when it has been considered torture for 100 of years. Even though this is used when training our soldiers, unlike our soldiers the suspected terrorist didn’t have a say in them getting this treatment which our soldiers volunteer to it. Torture under no circumstances is right in this country, even if we did get useful information or not it does not make it legal to do what we did. We could have just used regular interrogation methods.

Also they did this without even being sure if the techniques would even work, and knowing Korea and other countries had used in on our soldiers. The information we might had gotten out of them might had even most of it been made up. Who wouldn’t want to tell the person that’s torturing them what they what they think they want to hear to make it all stop. Why did they think they could get out of the 50th tried they waterboard al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in the first or second time they waterboard him. It was wrong to do those kinds of things without even knowing if this techniques were affective, I think we could have just used regular interrogation methods.