Amendment 8

Amendment 8- "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

Report Warned C.I.A. on Tactics In Interrogation

This article is about how the CIA might have made torture procedures to war prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is all about 9/11, people who had to deal with the set up. In the article it states that CIA officers have captured prisoners and do a procedure called, waterboarding. This is a form of torture in which the victim thinks he/she is drowning, and is catching their breathe while gagging. One CIA officer is being charged charges for this cruel attempt. But in the article it also argues that Bush's administrations says that this cruel procedure is not violating the 8th amendment because the prisoners in Iraq are not US citizens.

This does however violate the 8th amendment because the constitution states that there should be no "cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." The CIA are US citizens who are causing torture to people as a punishment for 9/11. This should be constitutional because US citizens are involved in this torture waterboarding procedure. No one should make people suffer for a punishment. It clearly states that in the 8th amendment. CIA officers are violating the 8th amendment.

I think its completely wrong for the CIA officers to do this. They know they are wrong and should stop the cruel punishment. Its crazy what they are doing to people, especially making them feel like they are drowning. I can't imagine what other procedures they do to prisoners. Just because they are not US citizens, doesnt mean they have to be treated in that kind of way.  The CIA are US citizens, so since they are part of America, they are violating the 8th amendment. Im sure if someone from another country did torture punishments to a US citizens they will be upset. So CIA officers should be charged.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/politics/09detain.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=dick%20cheney%20violating%20the%20amendment%208&st=cse