Inhumane CIA tactics

After the 9/11 terrorist attack the CIA used life threatening tactics in order to get information out of people who they suspected were terrorists. The CIA not only threatened the suspect’s life, but also their families. The CIA would tell the suspects that if they didn’t tell them what they wanted to know the CIA would try to make them talk by telling them that they would sexually abuse their family or mother in front of them.
Abd al-Nashiri is an example of someone who was threatened by these tactics, and not only this, The CIA not only told Abd al-Nashiri that they would sexually abuse his family and mother but, they threatened him with a unloaded gun and a drill. Another example is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the CIA interrogator told him, "if anything else happens in the United States, we're going to kill your children'". Although Khalid was the one who came up with the 9/11 attack I don’t think it was right to threaten him that way. These are tactics that I wouldn’t expect from the CIA. The Bush administration went down a "dark road of excusing torture." said the Senator Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which I agree with. The CIA knew that sooner or later they would be soon discovered of the torture tactics that they used. In fact, they told a suspect, "Ten years from now we're going to be sorry we're doing this (but) it has to be done". I believe that torture tactics were not a way to try and figure out information about the terrorist, especially when they were just torturing suspects. Even if Khalid had something to do with the 9/11 attack threatening him with his family was heartless, actually all these kind of tactics were. One of them in special was when an interrogator choked off the carotid artery of a detainee until he started to pass out, then shook him awake. He did this three times, says Devlin Barrett and Pamela, the associated press writers. These tactics were Inhuman, but was this the only time in which these tactics were used?

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