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In ten pages this paper argues that the use of torture on terror suspects by the United States and the Department of Homeland Security has hurt the U.S. and actually failed to prevent future attacks. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Guiora & Page, 2006, p. 427). Cruel and unusual punishment - literally and figuratively speaking - torture as a form of punishment against prisoners was officially outlawed in 1948
by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Bufacchi & Arrigo, 2006). The United Nations went two important diplomatic steps further in discouraging the practice of torture and the development
of torture techniques. In 1975, the U.N. passed the Declaration Against Torture and nine years later, the General Assembly adopted the Torture Convention (the Convention Against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment), which was ratified in 1987 (Bufacchi & Arrigo, 2006). Article I of the Torture Convention offers the following international (and officially recognized)
definition of torture: Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a
third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or
a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent
or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity (Bufacchi & Arrigo, 2006, p. 355). It is important to realize that torture techniques are
not solely physical; some of the most devastating forms of torture are psychological in nature and not necessarily fatal. One of the most debilitating types of torture, known as
a Category III technique, is waterboarding (Guiora & Page, 2006). Waterboarding is when a detainee is either tied or held down so that there is no escape from a
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