{"id":13780,"date":"2014-12-09T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/americans-views-on-use-of-torture-in-fighting-terrorism-have-been-mixed\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:20:22","slug":"americans-views-on-use-of-torture-in-fighting-terrorism-have-been-mixed","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2014\/12\/09\/americans-views-on-use-of-torture-in-fighting-terrorism-have-been-mixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans\u2019 views on use of torture in fighting terrorism have been mixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The so-called enhanced interrogation techniques put into practice by the Central Intelligence Agency after the September 2001 terrorist attacks and continued in subsequent years during the Bush administration are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/10\/world\/senate-intelligence-committee-cia-torture-report.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=a-lede-package-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\">focus of a report<\/a>\u00a0being released by the Senate Intelligence Committee \u2014 and a subject on which Americans have had mixed views.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2011\/09\/01\/united-in-remembrance-divided-over-policies\/#torture-chart\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f1f1ef\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f1f1ef;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"375\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/12\/FT_14.12.9_torture2.png?resize=310,375 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-25590 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/12\/FT_14.12.9_torture2.png\" alt=\"FT_14.12.9_torture2\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The use of practices like waterboarding began to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/08\/AR2007120801664.html\">surface publicly in press reports<\/a> not long after 9\/11, and when the Pew Research Center first <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2011\/09\/01\/united-in-remembrance-divided-over-policies\/#torture-chart\">surveyed on the subject in July 2004<\/a>, a narrow majority (53%) said the use of torture to gain important information from suspected terrorists could be only <em>rarely<\/em> or <em>never <\/em>justified.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opinion has shifted since then, with more Americans finding torture acceptable. In August 2011, a narrow majority (53%) of Americans said the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2011\/09\/01\/united-in-remembrance-divided-over-policies\/#torture-chart\">use of torture could be often or sometimes justified<\/a>, while 42% said it could only rarely be justified or not be justified at all.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A more recent poll by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnorc.org\/PDFs\/Balancing%20Act\/AP-NORC%202013_Civil%20Liberties%20Poll_Report.pdf\">Associated Press\/NORC<\/a>\u00a0conducted in August 2013 found similar results. Half said the use of torture could sometimes or often be justified while 47% said it could rarely or never be justified.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But polling has found that there are differences along party lines with Republicans more supportive than Democrats of torture with suspected terrorists. In our 2011 survey, a substantial majority of Republicans (71%) said torture could be at least sometimes justified, compared with 51% of independents and 45% of Democrats. In the AP\/NORC poll, 66% of Republicans backed use of torture in dealing with terrorists compared with 53% of independents and 39% of Democrats.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2011, 53% of Americans said the use of torture to question suspected terrorists could be often or sometimes justified, while 42% said it could only rarely be justified or not justified at all. 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