Pros And Cons Of Guantanamo Bay Torture

Throughout the years the controversial question; “Should the United States bring back the questionable; however effective, Guantánamo Bay torture program to obtain information from enemies to the country?” has frequented often. This is a question that has been asked since George W. Bush left office on January 20, 2009. This highly debated question is agreed among roughly 2/3rds of Americans. They believe it is a justified means of extracting information from enemies to the country and would like to see it brought back. The Guantanamo Bay torture program should be brought back since it is an effective way of obtaining information from different people as well as obtaining crucial information from terrorists or enemies to prevent further time

Bush signed a brief memorandum titled “Humane Treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda Detainees” (PDF). The caption was a cruel irony, an Orwellian bit of business, because what the memo authorized and directed was the formal abandonment of America’s commitment to key provisions of the Geneva Convention. This was the day, a milestone on the road to Abu Ghraib: that marked our descent into torture — the day, many would still say, that we lost part of our soul” (Bushs Torture Program Began Ten Years Ago." The Future of Freedom Foundation. N.p., 29 Oct. 2012. Web. 03 Apr. 2017. From https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/bushs-torture-program-began-ten-years/). Most people would say that torture is wrong and should never be used on someone, but the CIA torture program really did work with its creation came a new way of stopping horrendous acts before they could even happen. Granted some of the victims have been personally damaged for life due to some of the non-legal acts that they performed. In an article covering the subject victims tell reporters about there lasting effects even till this day. One victim tells us about how he has nightmares of the events that transpired while he was kept captive. Another talk’s about how he is too afraid to even

His court case continues to be open with no real close end date making his stay at the jail never ending. Khalid was interviewed by the Washington Spectator and believes his case will never come to a end and that he will spend the rest of his life in Guantanamo Bay prison if he is not executed first. Defense attorney Cheryl Bormann says “we are attempting to practice law here“, when pleaing with the judge not to give Khalid the death penalty. Khalid is not the only one on death row at the prison, in fact there are three others besides him all being charged with the same crimes and awaiting release but more likely execution. One of the others is 36 year old Walid bin Attash who was represented by attorney Bormann for senior civilian death penalty, walid believed to have run a al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan where two of the hijackers