Does anybody have right to torture?

 

Lately the whole media is covered of news about torture of suspected terrorist at CIA's 'Salt Pit' prison. As I read in this article the first detainee interrogated in the old abandoned brick factory north of Kabul became the model for what would later unfold in the cave-like halls of a CIA interrogation facility known as the "Salt Pit." Suspected terrorists, often were left alone in the shadows, under a barrage of shrieking music, cold, shackled and hooded. Some senior leaders in the factory did not have the linguistic or analytical experience to conduct effective questioning of CIA detainees and the result was diminished intelligence.

After reading this article I thought that nothing else can surprise me about this. But then I read another article which tells about that The United States government paid two military psychologists $80 million to develop torture tactics that were used against suspected terrorists. Even if one could get past the repulsive idea of paying someone to come up with new ways to torture people, the huge amount of taxpayer dollars spent on two individuals is simply unacceptable, especially when they didn’t seem to “invent” anything. So, basically US government paid millions of dollars for nothing. Couldn’t they spend that money for making better living conditions for US citizens instead of paying non-professional people to develop torture tactics. 

Here is one more article that I read about torturing.

This torturing is being done to know more information about Al Qaeda. I think that this torturing can’t have any excuse and the torturers should be convicted. Some people think that “they are terrorists, and they deserve it”, but I’ll say NO. No one deserves being tortured. In my opinion these people who torture terrorists are not better than they. If they require terrorists not to terrorize and torture, do they have right to do the same thing with them? I think that they can use better and more civilized methods to know the information they need.