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on Sunday July 30 2017, @11:28PM
from the Rosenhan-Milgram-Dunning-Kruger-research dept.
from the Rosenhan-Milgram-Dunning-Kruger-research dept.
From Wikileaks (via Vinay Gupta):
Judge rules two psychologists, Mitchell and Jessen, who made millions as consultants for the CIA's torture program can face trial.
How do you get into the business of being a torture consultant? Good question because when they started:
Neither man had ever carried out a real interrogation, had language skills or expertise on al Qaeda - the chief enemy in the war on terror - when the CIA handpicked Mitchell and Jessen to spearhead its supposed intelligence gathering program shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Their psychology backgrounds were in family therapy; their Ph.D. dissertations were on high blood pressure.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday July 31 2017, @02:30PM
The UCMJ is actually quite clear on this point: Anyone subject to the UCMJ must obey lawful orders, and must disobey unlawful orders. So, if, say, somebody ordered National Guardsmen to gun down unarmed protesters (to use a completely hypothetical example [wikipedia.org]), the Guardsmen are supposed to disobey that order and could be prosecuted for their actions.
Torture, being illegal under both US and international law, should never be carried out by US military personnel, even if they are ordered to do so. Of course, the odds are approximately zero that any of them will be court-martialed for it.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.