Several days ago a report on the use of torture on prisoners interrogated by the C.I.A was released into mainstream media. Torture is something that everyone subversively understood happened in interrogations but the extent to which people’s rights are violated is incredible.
This is the report
I found this pretty disturbing cartoon explaining some of the torture methods, that we know about.
I think this raises some interesting questions. To what extent does the United States get away with breaking human rights treaties? I feel that in a lot of occurrences the United States breaks the rules, but I also don’t believe the United States is the only place that tortures. How can we conceive of human rights law to be abstained by any means of practices like this are tolerated?
This also kind of speaks to what we spoke about in class and the creation of a common enemy in order to uphold the dehumanization process. In this case the CIA is very defensive of its methods and deems that post 911, because of their lack of knowledge of predicting the tragedy they believe that these methods are useful and important for counterterrorism.
Do you think that allowing such trends in the torture of terrorist suspects, could eventually bring the same violation of rights on American soil and not just Guantanamo Bay?
SOC320: Law, Society and Civil Rights 
For some reason, the first thought that came to mind when reading this post were all those action movies that I’ve watched, dealing with secret agents and CIA and all those. I don’t think torture is allowed in the U.S, at least not publicly, so they either have to bring the person to foreign soil or keep the knowledge hidden from the general public. Usually, the main reason why they would do this is to extract information. Other countries most likely all practice torture and violence, some probably even more extreme.
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