Defense Date
3-14-2011
Graduation Date
Spring 2011
Availability
Immediate Access
Submission Type
thesis
Degree Name
MA
Department
Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy
School
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Committee Chair
Kent Moors
Committee Member
John Sawicki
Keywords
Bush administration, CIA, Enhanced Interrogation, Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, War on Terror
Abstract
The outcry of torture being used during CIA interrogations of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay and other sites certainly jolted international humanitarians. With modern warfare evolving towards unconventional warfare, the notion of interrogation has become more controversial and linked hand-in-hand with torture methods. This study is not trying to make a case for torture, but instead seeks to provide qualitative reasoning through primary and secondary sources which some seek to support enhanced interrogation.
It will be important to identify why enhanced interrogation techniques are effective and deemed essential by some. If certain enhanced methods create extreme physical and emotional duress, then they will be considered methods of torture and inappropriate to employ to extract intelligence from combatants. This study expects to find that there is a tautological connection between counterterrorism and the interrogation methods. Although positive international law permits the use of certain techniques, there is an ever-growing negative opinion of all borderline methods throughout the international community.
Format
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Laufer, J. (2011). By Any Means Necessary: The Quandary the CIA Now Faces In Light of Employing Enhanced Interrogation Methods to Combat the War on Terror (Master's thesis, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/802