The trail that led to the doorstep of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan began years earlier with aggressive interrogations of al-Qaida detainees at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and CIA “black site" prisons overseas. It was with the use of enhanced interrogations that first led us to the descriptions of members of bin Laden’s network, including those that were protecting bin Laden at his heavily fortified compound in Abbottabad. On Sunday U.S. Special Forces killed May 2, 2011 bin Laden, in a dramatic raid.
Although, torture techniques were used during interrogation to extract information that led to the mission's success. There are many Critics that oppose the use of torture on terrorist, saying that its both impractical ineffective. And the information given is often falsified. And those who perform these tactics are seen as evil and immoral. Or so the argument goes. Yet as a result of terrorist attacks many people believe the use of torture on terrorists should be used in order to obtain information to prevent future attacks.

Critics against enhanced interrogation say that the use of these tactics removes us from the moral high ground. As well as the information obtained is invalid. and that the use of other methods can be just as effective.

We have seen the brutality and utter lack of regard for human life through torture by the Saddam Hussein regime, and Osama bin Laden. What put us above these terrorists are our high values we put on human rights. That can be seen in the genive code of convention stating that the use of torture is widely prohibited under domestic and international law. If we disregard those rules and lower our moral ideals we become no better than the terrorists that we try to elimiate.

Also Torture is considered by many experts as both impractical and ineffective. In May 2009, Obama accused the men and women of the CIA