Salt Pit

       We were assigned to research the topic CIA’s Salt prison and torture methods that they use on prisoners to try and get answers out of them.  The definition of salt prison or pit is CIA interrogation center in Afghanistan.  This salt pit started to arise and become more popular after the 9/11 attack. This made the CIA very furious with terrorists and wanted to stop them.  I read three different articles, which I will explain in this blog.
The first article I read was titled, At CIA’s ‘Salt Pit’ prison, torture reigned, with little oversight this article is found on msn.com. This article explains that no one in the world really knew about these torture prisons until now. What they do to the prisoners is very inhumane. They would make the prisoners to get no sleep, no clothes, unhealthy food, cold showers, and mock executions.  The CIA will take prisoners and put them in shackles and let them listen to blaring music for around 22 hours of the day.  One of the victims of the Salt Pit, Gul Rahman, only lasted two months from when the pit opened. He was killed due to misunderstanding towards the CIA.
United States government hired two psychiatrists to come up with new torture techniques to torture the prisoners. Each of the doctors got paid around forty million dollars to complete this task.  James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were the two doctors that were chosen to do this task for the government. They used Wikipedia and the hand book of Joseph Stalin to come up with torture tactics. They quoted to Vanity Fair in a questioning, “We are proud of the work we did for our country.”
The last article I read on was from Huffington Post, it talked about how Gul Rahman was shackled and left in the pit half naked and with little to no food. With him were four other terrorists.  The government would tell the family of the members that died that they died of natural causes or died in the interrogation. Why do we need to treat these people so poorly?