BLUF: The use of enhanced interrogation techniques presents a severe threat to United States national security due to the unreliable information collected from interviews and the potential for terrorist organizations to use such techniques within their recruitment propaganda. United States government officials must continue the ban of enhanced interrogation techniques to preserve the trust of the Iraqi and Afghanistan people during counter-insurgency efforts, and develop alternative strategies for
Interrogation Techniques In the given scenario, the officer used the Reid technique of interrogation to determine if the suspect was guilty of the stated crime. The method of the argument entirely used the recognized answers to control the question asked to the suspect (Fleisher & Gordon, 2010). For example, whenever the defendant answered that he could not recall where he put the knife, the officers asked him to imagine what he must have done. Also, the police employed a professional way of interrogation
yet, not all testimonies are reliable. Throughout the years, there have been many people who have been falsely convicted based on inadequate police interrogation methods that allowed for false confessions to occur. Effectiveness of Interrogation Methods Used by Civil Law Enforcement Every level of law enforcement uses some form of interrogation to get valuable information from a person. Police officers interrogate persons of interest to get information such as alibis, motives and witness accounts
reasons. Psychologists believe because people are responsive to reinforcements and thus are subject to principles of conditioning. In addition, people are by nature social beings and vulnerable to influences from other people. Modern day police interrogations use these biological responses to their advantage to elicit conformity, compliance, obedience, and persuasion in suspects. Furthermore, the use of trickery and deceit is not uncommon. With the widespread use of DNA evidence, many once guilty
So the big question is what do potential jurors know about police interrogation techniques? According to the study, by R.A. Leo, they do not know very much. The participants to the study said that all of the police interrogation techniques were coercive, however they believe that it did not lead to false confessions. In they study it says, “In general, participants rated many interrogation tactics as slightly coercive, likely to elicit a true confession, and unlikely to elicit a false one. Indeed
The Reid Technique of Interrogation leads investigators through eight levels of questioning, spanning from Positive Confrontation, Handling Denials, Overcoming Objections and more to an ultimate oral and written confession. In Lamar Monson’s interrogation, it seems like the police really pushed the hardest on Positive Confrontation, insisting relentlessly that Monson was the one that murdered the young girl, and Handling Denials, creating and committing early on to a made up narrative that fit the
Enhanced interrogation did not always exist. The CIA founded the Psychological Ethics and National Security (PENS) after the terrorist strikes on America on September 11, 2001. This event pushed the government to develop a task force, which included mostly psychologists. The group was to be used to get detainees to reveal their information and to use that to protect American national security. However, when the knowledge of enhanced interrogation became known to the people, criticism followed. To
interrogating techniques, targeted strikes or the use of drones, privacy and civil liberties, and the rights of prisoners or suspected extremist. It is hard not to find a moral issue with some of these topics. While these topics have ethical issues that need to be explored, interrogation techniques seem to be one of the important ones. Interrogation techniques include rectal infusion, waterboarding, nudity and sexual humiliation. Government officials have become defensive about the technique
Prisoners of War Issue In war, every act that is committed may be questionable. Was it necessary to kill that person? Do we need to drop this bomb? Should we have tortured that prisoner? Although the military personnel may question or be questioned about their decisions, they are likely saving lives while doing these tasks. This may not seem like the most appropriate option, but in times of hardship and war, it looks as if it is the only way to save the people whom the men are fighting for. In turn
"Enhanced Interrogation" is a term that was introduced by the George W. Bush administration. This type of investigation includes physically forcible interventions, such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation, facial slapping, forced standing for days and so on. Torture has been an argument for a long time to fight terrorism, but it is a bigger issue, especially after the incident of September 11, 2001. And still, it is not over that we should use "Enhanced Interrogation" or not. The techniques that are
discusses what interrogation is and how it is used by officers. I discuss the approaches of interrogation and how officers should approach suspects in order to secure a voluntary confession. I also talk about the methods of interrogation and how they act can affect the outcome of an interrogation. I provided different examples of situation officers run into to provide a better visualize as well. What is Gained through Interrogation? What is Interrogation? Interrogation is the consistent
be used by the United states in interrogation include, but are not limited to: kicking, punching, tear gas, death threats, mock executions, forced standing, and food and sleep deprivation. In the article I chose for this essay, “The Illusions of Truth Seeking”, Michael Welch discusses and analyzes the perils of the use of torture for interrogation during the American war on terror. During this period, towards
Enhanced Interrogation: CIA Agents Are Justified The average American makes hundreds of decisions on a daily basis; however, though they make these hundreds of decisions, very few of the choices have to do with the good of the country or saving lives. This is not the case for CIA agents. Just as the average everyday person makes decisions on a daily basis, so do these agents. The difference is that these agents are not trying to decide what sort of laundry detergent to use, or what time they
Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, or EIT’s related to gathering and using information has been a controversial subject in military practice and the criminal justice field. More recently, the media has shed light on some of the gruesome CIA practices of systematic torture on suspects since the release of information on The War on Terror and Guantanamo Bay detainees. Specifically, the debate focuses on whether these enhanced interrogations yield accurate information and its legality based on human
dealing with detainees and prisoners. It has been declared by many officials involved with interrogation “that systematic abuse was designed to break the will of detainees until they confessed” (Egendorf 95). For years, enhanced interrogation has been hidden, proclaimed immoral, justified, and used by many governments to obtain information from the enemy. The politics and history behind enhanced interrogation
instance of Abu Ghraib, resulted in the interrogators losing a grip of their humanity and sense of morality. It is not ethical to allow someone to sacrifice a part of their compassion to complete a violent task. 2. Torture is not an effective interrogation tool, allowing unwarranted abuse to
Countries around the world use such techniques to protect and defend their country. Keeping our people safe is one of the biggest advantages to advanced techniques. Although some people think that interrogation is cruel, it saves lives, helps and protects our country, and serves justice where it is needed. Interrogation saves millions of lives and gets valuable information, We have learned of and captured terrorists who were planning to attack because of interrogation. The C.I.A found the Al Qaeda group
to inhumane techniques used such as waterboarding. Used by the Bush administration, waterboarding has been a statistically ineffective form of obtaining information from prisoners. Many people such as President Trump, swear by the technique being effective. There has been a long debate whether waterboarding as a technique was legal due to its medieval and antiquated from of interrogation. The psychological damage may compromise the information as well as the source since the technique may cause death
of obtaining information about upcoming terror attacks. Some proof about that is the capture of Hassan Ghul, who was interrogated and apparently gave info on Osama Bin Laden’s courier, but they had a breakthrough leading to him even before the interrogation even began. I will show you why it is an ineffective method of gaining information and why it will be beneficial that the Obama Administration has banned this practice (From what I am Aware of from research.) From the first article, it seems
question has risen up about whether or not psychologists should be involved in interrogations of suspected terrorists. This question didn’t come out of nowhere but came when psychologists were involved in the interrogations of suspected terrorists at Guantanoma, Abu Ghraib, and psychologists that participated in the CIA and Pentagon’s harsh interrogation programs. These programs involved “torture” and interrogation techniques, which were only not called torture due to the government saying health providers