Torture Tactics
Did you know that a large amount of American money is spent each year on torturing terrorists from other countries? Two military psychologists got paid $80 million by the American government to create torture tactics that they could use on suspected terrorists to try and gain knowledge from them. These two doctors were receiving quite the pay day even though neither one of them had any experience as professional interrogators. They actually didn’t even have and specialized knowledge on the terrorist group al Qaeda. Another thing that wasn’t very great about these two is that they didn’t really seem to invent anything, yet they still got the paid outrageous amounts with the taxpayer’s money.
Did you know that a large amount of American money is spent each year on torturing terrorists from other countries? Two military psychologists got paid $80 million by the American government to create torture tactics that they could use on suspected terrorists to try and gain knowledge from them. These two doctors were receiving quite the pay day even though neither one of them had any experience as professional interrogators. They actually didn’t even have and specialized knowledge on the terrorist group al Qaeda. Another thing that wasn’t very great about these two is that they didn’t really seem to invent anything, yet they still got the paid outrageous amounts with the taxpayer’s money.
I also never knew about the Salt
Pit prison until now. The Salt Pit is a dungeon like prison where many
terrorists have been tortured. The government began to use the building in
2002, one year after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade
Center. One of the supervisors said that the Salt Pit was good for
interrogation because it was “the closest thing to a dungeon.” There was many
different methods of torture that was used here ranging from water torture, to
deprivation of sleep. No good records were kept on what actually happened here
which makes it hard for people to figure out what actually happened here.
During the Bush administration,
hundreds of said to be terrorists had been tortured by the CIA. The main spots
where this had all been taking place were in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, and Iraq,
but it also happened in other countries as well. Shortly after President Obama
took office in 2009, he began taking important steps towards ending the torture
program in the United States.
Even though the people now know
what is going on, there has still been little accountability for these deeds.
