Numerous agencies around the world such as the CIA as well as agencies within the European Union have exercising torture and having this in mind then arguably it could be a good step forward to qualify Article 3 of the ECHR and allow for torture to be used in certain circumstances and under certain strict criteria Identifying the use of techniques such as torture as a beneficial tool in the process of interrogation and legalizing such use would mean more scrutiny of its use and more strict and clear boundaries to be set as to what may be used At the moment no such boundaries exist as torture is prohibited completely however as mentioned above and as widely known it is being used covertly by multiple agencies in multiple jurisdictions The idea of torture being used as a weapon against terrorism has been strongly rejected and opposed by numerous academics who even go to the far extreme of saying that torture is essentially a form of terrorism and go as far as equating the two concepts Bennoune argues that torture is the same thing as terrorism arguing that the similarities between the practices of terror and torture are significant and defining These include the visitation of severe pain on victims the intentionality of doing so and the tremendous fear deliberately provoked in victims survivors and those around them