The act of torture, or merely just hearing the word torture, invokes a response in everyone. It is in our nature to not hurt anyone unless they have done something against us personally. When it comes up in the news that the CIA has been torturing people for information, we all were caught stunned for a moment, then our thoughts surface and we realize, "Am I really that surprised? They are the CIA after all."
But as we look further into what actually happened, it is disturbing. The torture methods they used were not only inhumane, but just plain wrong.
(I don't want to go into detail, but if you would like to know the exact techniques, click here.)
And after all they had done, about half of over 200 men detained by the CIA didn't have any useful information.
There is a way to do things, and there is a way not, and what they did was not they way to handle the situation. Going to such extremes was unnecessary, uncalled for, and frankly just disturbing. The CIA went too far this time.
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