Real World Reasons Against Torture

I'd even help the defense find a social psychologist or two who can demonstrate what all the experiments on "group think" and "obedience to authority" have proven with regard to human behavior.

But this would go to evaluating relative responsibility and mitigating punishments and should not be used as a reason to jump over the most crucial first phase of the criminal justice process: the fact-finding ascertainment of truth. Full Story »

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Rowley builds an opinion around Soufan's op-ed. She dissents about whether to prosecute CIA agents, based upon the Nuremberg principles.

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