Should civilized nations use "Enhanced Interrogation" techni

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But, you are correct in that under the Bush administration, the boundaries (both geographic and moral) were unclear, and probably left unclear intentionally which communicated the wrong message to the ranks of would be interrogators.

Not that I believe this is what largely happened, but that doesn't make those interrogators look better. Having followed orders would at least give them a (moral) excuse of sorts: experiment has shown that people are willing to do worse things as they would do normally, when asked by by a perceived authority.