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Bush-era interrogation memos
The White House releases memos giving CIA agents the all-clear for the "extreme interrogation" of terror suspects.
I've read some of the first memo entitled "Memorandum for John Rizzo, Acting General Counsel, CIA from Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, 1 Aug 2002" and the methods described makes me 
Obama has said that agents who used the techniques on suspects would not face punishment - they were just following orders...
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4/17/2009, 1:32 pm
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Re: Bush-era interrogation memos
You've got a good point about the Milgram study 
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4/17/2009, 10:57 pm
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Re: Bush-era interrogation memos
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eVilpoptart wrote:
...I wish I didn't know about the Milgram study...if I didn't, I'd agree that "following orders" is no excuse. Sadly, it's human nature to follow orders, even if they are horrific...  
*nods* I thought of that myself. I just forgot the name of the study.
It's a bit similar to bystander apathy - it's also human nature not to help, say, an assault victim if there are others around. We tend to figure someone else will take care of it.
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4/17/2009, 11:29 pm
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Re: Bush-era interrogation memos
Everytime I read about things like this, a qoute from Terminator 2 comes to my mind, The Terminator said: "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves" - it's not completely wrong and that makes me sad.
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4/17/2009, 11:42 pm
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