Enhanced Interrogation

Enhanced Interrogation

Introduction

Interrogation (also known as interpellation or questioning) is referred as interviewing. This activity is often executed by officers of military, police and intelligence agencies. The main objective of this questioning is to obtain the important information or extracting the declaration from the terrorist. It is often observed that, the areas of interrogation may include witnesses, victims and suspects of a crime. The case studies, researches and surveys show that the interrogation may incorporate different array of techniques and tools which may range from developing a empathy with the subject to complete to torture.

According to recent researches and surveys, the enhanced interrogation techniques are considered as the most used techniques in the department of police, military and investigation. Enhanced interrogation techniques are referred as the alternative set of processes which were approved by the administration of George W. Bush. These enhanced techniques are considered as the most severe, harsh and critical interrogation methods and these techniques may involve water-boarding, stress positions and hypothermia. According to the recent case studies, the department of defense (DoD) and central intelligence Agency (CIA) have implemented these enhanced techniques on several prisoners, in order to get the desired secrets and information.

The enhanced interrogation techniques have great impacts on the process of investigation and may provide better opportunities to the investigators to get their desired information. The proceeding paper incorporates the basic concept of enhanced interrogation techniques. The proceeding discussion also demonstrates the pros and cons of enhanced interrogation techniques.

Discussion

Enhanced interrogation techniques are referred as certain techniques which are used by the police, military or investigation departments, in order to find out and get the desired information. Enhanced interrogative tools or techniques are considered as the collection of aggressive strategies or plans which are used during the process of interrogation. This may help the intelligence agencies to get the desired and useful information from the criminal or prisoner. These techniques were initially used by the administration of Bush, in the Iraq. The supporters and followers of enhanced interrogation claim that, it is the most effective and useful technique for getting the desired information from the criminals or prisoners. On the other hand, the disbelievers or critics argue that it is considered as the torture and is totally illegal act, in accordance with the basic human rights.

It is a fact that enhanced interrogation techniques may greatly affect the psychological as well as the physical health if the victim. Therefore, it must be considered by the concerned authorities to take over this issue. There are several other methods of interrogation instead of enhanced techniques or tools.

Background Over-view of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

Enhanced interrogation techniques are simply referred as the series or collection of coercive and harsh interrogation techniques. The history of enhanced interrogation demonstrates that, these techniques were initially implemented by the Administration of Bush, military of United States and the central intelligence agency (CIA). These departments implemented the enhanced techniques in order to get the information from the prisoners, in order to ...