CIA's Prison Article


       The thought of torture is a repelling one. That being said after reading this article about this so called Salt Prison, it is appalling to find out that these torture techniques were used on these people. Even though they are probably guilty of heinous crimes, was it worth the money and cost to keep prisoners who weren't giving any information up to these interrogators. The answer is NO! This was a complete failure in the sense that we never got really in new and useful information. All we got was information that was already known or that wasn't useful to our knowledge of the terrorist groups. Don't get me wrong, I am all for finding whoever is responsible for these heinous crimes and locking them up for good. But, there has to be a better and more morally right way to do this. They were treated as sub-human and I believe that was wrong. No matter how bad of a person they are or were, no matter how much pain they caused. I do not believe that that they needed to be tortured in such a gruesome way. Let alone let the CIA just hide the information about these from the public.
  
Two Docs paid 80 million
         To start off this is a complete waste of 80,000,000 dollars. These doctors had "developed" new techniques that have already been in use for hundreds of years. This money could have gone to developing a charity or doing something productive. But nope, it went paying 2 doctors to develop ways to torture someone physically and mentally. That is almost hypocritical in the fact that as America it is our self-assigned job to protect other people. This money could have gone to cancer treatment but nope it was wasted on something as pointless as developing "new" torture techniques.


 LA Times "Salt Pit" article
      This article highlighted the torture used by the CIA agents and the sheer amount of cruelness they treated the prisoners with. Whether it was sheering music or being chained to a bar for 23 hours, these men were treated absolutely awful. Sure they all did awful things to many people but is this the answer. I don't believe it is. No matter how awful the person, inflicting pain on them will not teach them anything or get them to give up valuable information. All it will do is break a person down to being uncooperable. This is just unacceptable.


La times article: http://www.latimes.com/world/afghanistan-pakistan/la-fg-torture-salt-pit-20141210-story.html


2 doc article: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/two-docs-got-dollar80-million-to-develop-torture-tactics/ar-BBgBe3V


CIA Prison Article: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-cias-salt-pit-prison-torture-reigned-with-little-oversight/ar-BBgAaEW