The implications of spying and torture for human freedom from a Sartrean point of view

In 2002, the media began to report that Americans were engaging in torturing a large number of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay naval base. At first the American government denied that torture methods were being used on prisoners, but soon they had to admit that some torture was used as an ‘enhanced interrogation technique’ to obtain information from terrorists and other prisoners (Fletcher 2008, p. 4). The Justice Department advised the White House that torture ‘may be justified’ in interrogations conducted as part of the war on terror (Washington Post 2002).