There is little current development in torture. The technological advancements in torture ended centuries ago, and there has not been many events regarding torture since before the 15th century. However, in the post 9/11-era United States there has been some recent controversy with the Bush Administration in regard to torture. The Bush Administration allowed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to use torture to interrogate prisoners under the guise of its enhanced interrogation techniques. While there were not many advancements in torture devices, there were certainly advancements in torture methods. The CIA used methods such as isolation, sensory deprivation, and drugs. The CIA also tried to hypnotise political prisoners from Latin American regimes using drugs. The CIA also uses manuals in order to train their operatives in a methodological way how to torture properly. However The CIA chief of interrogations under the Bush administration, whose name was redacted in the Senate report, previously used a discredited training manual, Human Resources Exploitation. While the manuals are not without flaws, the CIA was not torturing for torture’s sake or to punish, but to get information and to help protect their country. The aforementioned controversy is due largely to US president Barack Obama actively fighting the lawful use of the enhanced interrogation techniques set up by the Bush Administration.. Barack Obama fought torture when he issued Executive Order 13491, banning the U.S government's use of torture. This was a blatant rebuke to the Bush Administration's ability to interrogate suspected terrorists. This was not entirely due to the Bush Administration being able to torture people. It was also due to the fact that interrogators sometimes went far beyond what they were authorized to do. This includes sodomizing detainees with blunt objects, threatening to sexually abuse their family members, and, on at least one occasion, freezing a suspect to death by chaining him to an ice cold floor overnight. The difference between being allowed to torture someone and completely killing them is obvious and absolute. It is one thing to de-nail someone, for example, and another to cut off their fingers and take out some teeth. Nails for one thing grow back, unlike teeth and fingers. The difference is that of injury and maiming. It is obvious why this would upset some people higher up the ladder. It makes it seem like they cannot control their underlings. That when their workers are given tools and some freedom they will go overboard. So even if Barack Obama was fine using torture on terrorists these blatant obstructions of rules certainly would have made him shudder. However a return to the lawful use of torture may be imminent. The new US president Donald Trump, Donald Trump has vowed to reinstate the use of torture. He said he would bring about torture that would be, a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. He also said later that torture wouldn't bother him even a little bit. If Donald Trump really does bring back torture in the CIA, it could be the decay or the death of extreme terrorism. This could very well happen since a poll showed that a majority of Americans have no real problems with torture. However, this could just be a situation where the grass is always greener on the other side. Torture will be sanctioned for a time, then prohibited for a time. The only problem is that it can sometimes take months or years for changes in laws to be made. The distinction just needs to be made however, between torturing someone known to be guilty or going off of circumstantial evidence to say someone is guilty and torturing them.