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Should the military be allowed to use enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, to gain information from suspected terrorists?

After the September 11, 2001 terror attacks the George W. Bush administration authorized the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” at secret detention facilities around the world run by the defense department and CIA. The authorization approved the use of many techniques including beatings, binding in stress positions, hooding, sleep deprivation and waterboarding. In 2008 President Obama signed an executive order banning the use torture by the U.S. military and CIA. In 2016 the use of torture became a topic during the Presidential race when candidate Donald Trump suggested…  

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 @8TQJF8J from Washington D.C.  answered…4yrs4Y

No. While there might be theoretical justification, the government cannot be trusted to constrain itself

 @9B7DX2CGreen from Washington D.C.  answered…2yrs2Y

No, torture is inhumane, unethical, violates the 8th amendment, and goes against the agreements stated in the Geneva Convention.

 @9CNRDSJ from Washington D.C.  answered…2yrs2Y

No, our own laws and agreements with other countries ban it. Follow the rules or don't sign the document at all.

 @9CMWTVTDemocrat from Washington D.C.  answered…2yrs2Y

Yea but in extreme extreme cases

 @97Z2TT5 from Washington D.C.  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but only in the most extreme of circumstances.

 @97PTX8PDemocrat from Washington D.C.  answered…3yrs3Y

They must be burned, eaten alive, ripped apart, jaw ripped off, head crushed by vise, bamboo growing inside them, and drenched in molten lava

 @97PQSMG from Washington D.C.  answered…3yrs3Y

They should be allowed to whip them, rip their fingernails, and beat them with iron rods. If they don't talk, burn them, or rip them apart by tying right hand and leg to one car and left hand and leg to another.

 @97PQH59 from Washington D.C.  answered…3yrs3Y

They should be allowed to burn them, whip them, beat them with iron rods, cut them in half, rip their jaw off, and tie right hand and leg to one car, left leg and hand to another, and rip them apart.

 @97362L8 from Washington D.C.  answered…3yrs3Y

I don’t have a good answer to this question

 @92NGP46 from Washington D.C.  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, because terrorists are not protected by the constitution or the 8th amendment.

 @89GKJJFConstitution from Washington D.C.  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but only if the suspect is not a US citizen

 @9C2F2ZQ from Washington D.C.  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes. To protect our citizens we must exhaust all resources and capability's. even using enhanced interrogation techniques we follow rules and guidelines, they do not. #Spartan Party

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