It is implied under “cruel and unusual punishment,” but that is for punishment, and not interrogation.
The founding fathers were not stupid.
Torture had existed for thousands of years, as a method of getting information from a captured enemy. The British used it on American revolutionaries.
They could have put it in there, by name, but did not, because they knew it would cripple the military in a time of need.
Now, if a liberal wants to use the “cruel and unusual punishment,” clause, as a case against ‘torture’, then that applies only to US citizens, not enemies in foreign lands..............
Yes, agreed. My take on the Constitution is that among many of the things that revolted and dismayed the Framers was this. The English methods of execution in the past. The method was to draw out the death of the accused just as long as he/she could know and feel pain. (I will have to research as to when that method was discontinued).
Some of the punishments especially on Tower Hill,London, one can attribute to inhuman devils. The Framers knew they would have to have the death sentence for criminal conduct. They just wanted the orgy of torturing of a poor wretch, with the amusement of the stench ridden crowd watching, to be ended.
I winced at the disclosure of the methods used by the CIA et al. I ask myself, why in the name of heaven release this stuff?
Remember, it’s cruel AND unusual, not OR. It might be cruel if but it’s used often enough, it wouldn’t be unusual. 8^)