POL 4189 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, United Nations Convention Against Torture, William Safire
18 Mar 2015
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Strategies used to torture, coerce, and inflict pain. The use of enhanced interrogation" techniques to elicit confessions/information. Opens the door to inflicting serious physical and mental pain (short of death) o without repercussion o. Intimidation: coercion [confession] (character) deconstruction [false confession] break down the individual to the point that they"re say whatever you want them to say. Development of the sere program to protect individuals against such o interrogation techniques. The 24 scenario of the ticking bomb : the non-torture breakthroughs (khalid sheikh mohammed) The cia claims that it had actionable intelligence, but an investigation proved o otherwise. Did they find bin laden thanks to information obtaining through torture, or o. How torturers react to their job sometimes a power trip becomes a barbaric o engagement of dehumanization (ptsd) Legal approach: geneva conventions: codification of the rules of war for all categories of people caught in armed conflicts.
