After the attacks on September 11, 2001, president George W. Bush led the United States military and intelligence into the War on Terror. There have been countless issues regarding the War on Terror. Morally speaking there have been issues regarding 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 …show more content…
Many different people have denied that these acts have happened but they still continue to take place today. “This is very much in keeping with Bush administration policies to deny, falsify, obfuscate or simply lie about techniques sanctioned and employed in its fictitious War on Terror.” The acts of sexual humiliation are horrendous. Just a few of these acts are “videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees; forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time; forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped; arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them; positioning a naked detainee on a MRE [meals ready to eat] Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick.” This act of interrogation is the most gruesome and invasive form of torture there can be. The act within itself is immoral. The whole idea of raping, videoing, photographing, and whatever else is immoral, not to mention illegal in the United States. This was done by U.S government and CIA officials, who know that these acts are wrong and unjust. The administration allowed these acts to happen. “The Bush administration’s argument is that an interrogator can utilize what it calls “enhanced interrogation techniques” if he/she believes such techniques will thwart a possible threat or terrorist act.” The act of sexual humiliation cannot be justified as moral, or in any way