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1. Are enhanced interrogation techniques effective?

2. Enhancing Interrogation: Advancing a New Agenda

3. Written John A. Wahlquist Published by the U.S. Army

4. http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/articles/09summer/wahlquist.pdf

5. Strategic Studies Institure, 5/22/2014

6. Subject: enhanced interrogation, morality, effectiveness, details of programs Occasion: Controversy after the public found out about the programs Audience: The public but mainly more mainstream journalists since this was published by the military Purpose: To give an overview of what was actually going on Speaker: A researcher who works for the U.S. military Tone: Objective, serious, informative

7. This source concludes that enhanced interrogation was immorally and ineffective. At the end it establishes the goal and plans for making the U.S. the leader in non-invasive interrogation practices.

8. " President Obama’s executive order on interrogation provides an excellent opportunity to end abusive practices and to propose a new agenda for intelligence interviewing that increases the capability to collect accurate information from enemy detainees effectively and humanely."

9. I am not very persuaded by the author of this article. At the beginning I thought I'd be but by the end it was clear that this author was a puppet used to appease the public and media's reaction to our past techniques.

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 * " President Obama’s executive order on interrogation provides an excellent opportunity to end abusive practices and to propose a new agenda for intelligence interviewing that increases the capability to collect accurate information from enemy detainees effectively and humanely. "
 * " The order established Army Field Manual (FM) 2-22.3, Human Intelligence Collector Operations, as the new standard for conducting intelligence interrogations, applicable to all agencies of the US government, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Specifically, the executive order prohibits “any interrogation technique or approach, or any treatment related to interrogation that is not authorized by and listed in [FM 2-22.3].”1"
 * "The visceral nature of President Obama’s opposition to enhanced interrogation techniques and his rejection of the Bush Administration’s underlying legal rationale for them became even more apparent with his personal decision,"
 * "In an October 2006 interview, then-Vice President Dick Cheney agreed with his host that the use of waterboarding on high-value detainees was a “no-brainer” because it “provided us enormously valuable information” that contributed to saving American lives"