Enhanced Interrogation

Enhanced Interrogation is another term for torture that is used by the CIA and other government agencies to extract information from prisoners. Most of the methods approved by President Bush involve open-handed slaps to the chest and head but also can involve captives being forced to stand for extended periods of time, keeping them in cold rooms and perhaps the most controversial of them all is something called water boarding.
Other countries envoke different methods to get information from captives. The Gestapo of Nazi Germany used methods like hard beds, dark rooms, sleep deprivation, exhaustion, and hits with a stick. The lawyers of the captives in Guantanamo Bay have made claims that these behaviors are very simular to the ones carried out on their clients.
Lately these interrogation methods have met some scrutany with civilians. Just this past year over 100 professors from institutions across America wrote to the Attorney General claiming that waterboarding is infact torture and therefore a criminal felony.