Interrogation techniques
Public debate over the United States’s use of torture
was recently stoked by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,000-page report on
“enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA in the years following the
9/11 attacks. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who commissioned the report, responded
to its criticism on Twitter with the hashtag #ReadTheReport. Not many people
have done so, partly because of its length and disturbing content, partly
because most people already have entrenched political or moral convictions
regarding the justification of torture.
Many of the arguments employed by critics of torture
are founded in human rights. Kleinman represents a military contingent whose
objection to torture is professional – they believe it is ineffective and have
been collaborating with psychologists to prove this in clinical trials.
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