Media in category enhanced interrogation techniques the following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. D, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, is a founding member of the coalition for an ethical psychology, advisor on psychology and ethics for physicians for. It is possible to get highvalue information quickly. The cias use of its enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or. Are enhanced interrogation techniques a valuable way of obtaining intelligence, fighting terrorism, and upholding national security. Fbi correspondence regarding dia personnel in guantanamo. Interrogation can, at the same time, be conducted in a way that deepens the effect of torturing methods and environments when the interview is carried out in a way that fosters cognitive and emotional exhaustion, leading to breakdown perezsales, 2016.
Ap photoron edmonds, file cias new torture documents. The convenient terrorist by john kiriakou and joseph hickman. New research suggests enhanced interrogation not effective. The enhanced interrogation techniques the cia used on. The attached document contains classified national security council information. Interrogation also called questioning or interpellation is interviewing as commonly employed by officers of the police, military, and intelligence agencies with the goal of extracting a confession or incriminating statements. Nomination of howard nielson to the united states district. The cias interrogation menu the cia may have pushed the envelope with interrogation techniques, but even it thought some techniques were too far. After approximately a month of detention and the extensive use of the cias enhanced interrogation techniques on arsala khan, the cia concluded that.
Enhanced interrogation techniques or alternative set of procedures were terms adopted by the george w. Bush administration in the united states to describe interrogation methods used by us military intelligence and the central intelligence agency cia to extract information from individuals captured in the war on terror soon after the september 11 attacks in 2001. Enhanced interrogation techniques abuse wiki fandom. Washington, december 12 sputnik the enhanced interrogation techniques, used by the central intelligence agency cia and described in a recent senate report, may be alarming to us citizens, but are justifiable from the legal perspective, incoming senate intelligence committee chairman richard burr has told sputnik. That lawsuit, to the surprise of some legal observers, remained alive until an outofcourt settlement was reached on 16 august 2017 despite expectations that the government, as it has with most previous detainee lawsuits, would invoke the state secrets privilege to quash the litigation. What enhanced interrogation techniques do is bring that person to a talking point much sooner.
Mi interrogation units are a proven and valued collection asset. Inside the cias black site torture room us news the guardian. Psychologists behind cia enhanced interrogation program. Enhanced interrogation techniques military wiki fandom. The enhanced interrogation techniques used by the cia. The site includes links to additional resources including previously classified documents. Despite a lot of bravado, everyone eventually talks.
Foia documents related to the former detention and interrogation program 6541720 rippub 4 june. The central intelligence agencys use of enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees, a senate report claims. Enhanced interrogation explained human rights first. Results cias use of dojapproved enhanced interrogation techniques, as part of a comprehensive. Central intelligence agency cia in the interrogation ofhig. Barack obama disavowed these directives upon his election. Table of interrogation techniques recommendedapproved by u.
May 07, 2009 as reported in abc news, bunch of other dems not in the post article. According to bradbury, many, if not all, of cias enhanced interrogation. Physicians for human rights has released a report that uncovers, in recently released documents on the cias use of enhanced interrogation techniques on detainees held in u. He backed the use of enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding. Enhanced interrogation in the war on terror enhanced. Defense intelligence agency united states enhanced interrogation techniques. Information from victims and witnesses is usually obtained through interviews. As is true of all 19 jan 2002 rogation standards laid out in the army field manual 222. Federal court calls us enhanced interrogation techniques. Did the cias enhanced interrogation techniques eits produce otherwise unavailable intelligence that saved lives, as the cia claimed. It builds upon existing doctrine and moves interrogation into the 21st century. We may look back and say we should never do this again, that is fine.
Torture, enhanced interrogations, and the role of psychologists the hoffman report has raised great concern and consternation in apa, and in psychology as a profession. This manual incorporates the operational experiencesand lessons learned. It is inaccurate to say that abu zubaydah had been uncooperative and that enhanced interrogation techniques supplies interrogators with previously unobtainable information. Enhanced interrogation techniques or alternative set of procedures are terms the george w. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading enhanced interrogation. This summary was put together as a resource for educating. Enhanced interrogation techniques or enhanced interrogation is a euphemism for the program of systematic torture of detainees by the central intelligence agency cia, the defense intelligence agency dia and various components of the u. The benefits of enhanced interrogation techniques in todays society. George tenet asked if he had permission to use enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, on khalid sheikh mohammed. Subject research and evidence of experimentation in the enhanced interrogation program. Are traditional techniques, and possibly approaches that attempt to win the trust of prisoners, more effective. These are the enhanced interrogation techniques the cia used on detainees. The same info can be obtained by traditional interrogations. Jul 14, 2017 the cias interrogation menu the cia may have pushed the envelope with interrogation techniques, but even it thought some techniques were too far.
The bush administration insists it does not torture people, but says it uses enhanced interrogation techniques, which, according to critics, for all. Enhanced interrogation techniques and the risk of criminality. Subjects of interrogation are often suspects involved in crimes. A civilian contractor who had spent years training us military members to resist interrogation should they be captured, mitchell, aware of the urgent need to prevent impending catastrophic attacks, worked with the cia to implement enhanced interrogation techniques which included waterboarding. So using enhanced interrogation techniques against insurgent prisoners out of uniform was punishable by death. The twoway psychologists bruce jessen and james mitchell devised a. Many notable thinkers are, and will continue to be, involved in the debate over the use of eits. This report was prepared by the fbiadministered highvalue detainee interrogation group and summarizes best practices for interrogation that do not involve the use of force. Most prominent was that of ethical violations committed by individuals and apa in the name of policy and decisions. Certain enhanced interrogation methods used fulfill the definition of torture. Oms is responsible for assessing and monitoring the health of all agency detainees subject to enhanced interrogation techniques, and for determining that the. Enhanced interrogations dont work as well as regular.
This document explains what the socalled enhanced interrogation and related interrogation techniques are, and the physical and psychological effects of their use. Despite claims by some that waterboarding and other techniques are ineffective, numerous intelligence officials attest otherwise. Click here to visit cia saved lives for an indepth of the cias enhanced interrogation program from the perspective of cia officials with hundreds of years of combined service. The zero dark thirty file george washington university. Jan 17, 20 and, importantly, whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those detainees, as the film suggests, is a matter of debate that cannot and never will be definitively resolved. This sequence of directives legally justified the use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Executive order 491 of january 22, 2009 ensuring lawful interrogations.
Jul 04, 2018 there is nothing mysteriouo about interrogation. There are some pros and cons to using enhanced interrogation techniques. Cia headquarters authorized what it called enhanced interrogation techniques and what critics call torture the same day, according to the report, and the enhanced procedures were put. A wellknown torture tactic, waterboarding creates the sensation of asphyxiation or drowning. Two views of the cias enhanced interrogations the senate intelligence committee released a report tuesday on the interrogation techniques used. Senate report on cia torture 2014 pdf internet archive. Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to. Schneiderman looks at the new research being conducted into the science of interrogation. Fresh details of the horrors of enhanced interrogation techniques ducttape diapers, ineffective techniques, and the cias cover. This article argues that the bush administration attempted to legitimate the use of enhanced interrogation techniques by making torture normal work. From late 2001 onwards, numerous memos were exchanged between the department of justices office of legal counsel and the white house, the counsel to the cia, and the department of defense regarding the detention and treatment of detainees in the war on terror. This summary was put together as a resource for educating students. Table of interrogation techniques recommendedapproved by.
Enhanced interrogation explained the cias detention and interrogation program allowed the use of socalled enhanced interrogation techniques on detainees captured after 911. A civilian contractor who had spent years training u. Enhanced interrogation techniques have been referred to as harsh interrogation methods or a form a torture by cruel and unusual punishment for decades. The effectiveness of harsh interrogation techniques. Cia enhanced interrogation techniques horrific but. Enhanced interrogations dont work as well as regular ones. The bush administration, the central intelligence agency and enhanced interrogation techniques article pdf available in organization 224.
Enhanced interrogation may not be effective for a number of reasons, most notably, because the one being interrogated may not have any valuable information. The debate regarding enhanced interrogation techniques surrounds the following questions. It is to be read and discussed only by persons authorized by. The techniques included forced nudity, painful stress positions, sleep deprivation. Bush administration used for certain torture methods including hypothermia, stress positions and waterboarding. The cias use of its enhanced interrogation techniques was not an.
The numbers behind the cias interrogation report data. This memorandum responds to your request for an independent study of the foreign intelligence efficacy of using enhanced. Enhanced interrogation techniques wikimedia commons. The central intelligence agency cia and the department of defense dod employed these methods at baghram, in black sites or secret prisons, the guantanamo bay detention camps, and abu ghraib. These principles and techniques of interrogation are to be used within the constraints established by the following. Roles of cia physicians in enhanced interrogation and torture. The cia used enhanced interrogation techniques for several years but it is unclear how many detainees were subjected to the methods.
Cias enhanced interrogation methods employed by the. The declassified memos give a clear indication of the timeline and the evidence used to justify the enhanced interrogation techniques by its supporters. The american psychological associations secret complicity. Perspectives on enhanced interrogation techniques july 9. Secrecy has restricted scrutiny of the role of physicians and other medical personnel in the central intelligence agencys cias enhanced interrogation program, begun in 2002. After about a month of detention and interrogation, the cia. Armed forces at black sites around the world, including bagram, guantanamo bay, and abu ghraib. Enhanced interrogation techniques or enhanced interrogation is a euphemism for the program of systematic torture of detainees by the central intelligence. Federal court calls us enhanced interrogation techniques torture. The cias use of its enhanced interrogation techniques was not.
Inside the minds and motives of the islamic terrorists trying to destroy america kindle edition by mitchell, james e. Perspectives on enhanced interrogation techniques unt. One thing that i think has sometimes been lost in all these years of controversy over the cia program, the enhanced interrogation techniques, having been there and playing a. Use of torture and other illegal methods is a poor technique that yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to. Drawing the fine line between interrogation and torture.
By the authority vested in me by the constitution and the laws of the united states of america, in order to improve the effectiveness of human intelligencegathering, to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in united states custody and of united states personnel who are detained in armed. A cia contractor said saturday that allowing enhanced interrogation techniques many of which are considered to be torture to be used on terrorist detainees remains necessary. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The december 2016 publication of enhanced interrogation seemed timed to reach the potential jury pool for the thenpending lawsuit by three former cia detainees against mitchell and jessen.
Bush administration administration of the 43rd president of the united states of america, with the antecedent german verscharfte vernehmung enhanced interrogation noun. The law and morality of the interrogation of prisoners of war 70 nov. Psychologists behind cia enhanced interrogation program settle detainees lawsuit. Armed forces at black sites around the world, including bagram, guantanamo bay, and abu ghraib, authorized by officials of the george w.
Ssci study on cia detention and interrogation frequently asked questions content question. This report briefly summarizes what constituted enhanced interrogation techniques eits, provides background on their adoption and use, and discusses differing views on three questions that underpin discussion and debate of this topic. Inside the cias black site torture room us news the. The program, also labeled physical and psychological pressure, was designed to psychologically dislocate the. This document explains what the socalled enhanced interrogation and related interrogation techniques are, and the physical and psychological effects of their. Interrogator ali soufan said in an april 2009 oped article in the new york times.
Report senate select committee on intelligence senate. Cia says pelosi was briefed on use of enhanced interrogations. I am unaware of any opinions issued by the office relating to enhanced interrogation techniques while i was at the office other than the opinions issued by dan levin and steve bradbury in december 2004 and may of 2005. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the interrogation of detainees, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. It was conducted between 2002 and 2009, with the authorization of officials in the bush administrations white house and the department of justice. Enhanced interrogation techniques is a euphemism for the u.
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