Torture And Torture In Public Administration

Public administration is concern about the implementation of policy and to meet the government goals. Politics, performance and accountability are fundamental aspects among public administration. Politics refers to the political values that shape the administrative action. Performance considers the effectiveness and efficiency of the public administrator’s process. Meanwhile, accountability is the expectation of account-giving by the actions of the public servants, this depends of the political control over the administrator’s actions (Kettl, 2015). The American public administration is based on ten fundamental principles, which are focuses on effectiveness and accountability of the public servants. These principles are: i) implement the laws

However, the coordination of these principles to work well require high economic and human resources (Moe & Gilmour, 1993).

The next section presents a summary of the case study of the torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib, Iraq between 2002 and 2003, by U.S military officials. Subsequently, an analysis is made of the main problems in the policy and command changes that led the abuse and torture of detainees. Case study

forces and absence accountability. Additionally, U.S was passing through a pressure situation due to the terrorist attack in September 2001. This situation, pressured the government to develop a war against the terrorism, and protect the country of future attacks.

Among the case study failures in leadership were clear. The diverse investigation reports were focus at the bottom level of the military forces, but never these reports reached a high level to investigate abuses from the base to the top of the hierarchy. Additionally, the Congress of the United States remained decidedly outside regarding the treatment of the prisoners, despite the authority that the constitution confers on the subject. Although the hierarchical system of operation of the US government is clear, in this case each public official used the rule of law according to the hierarchical order, which makes its standardization difficult (Kettl,