In a 2004 report
that was made public on Monday, the CIA's inspector general noted
that "a number of agency officers of various grade levels who are
involved with detention and interrogation activities are concerned
that they may at some future date be vulnerable to legal action."
Depending on your view of the Bush administration's "enhanced
interrogation techniques," says Senior Editor Jacob Sullum, this
spontaneously expressed fear shows either that the officers knew
they were breaking the law or that they worried they would be
punished for policy decisions made by their superiors. Sullum says
there is evidence to support both interpretations, which in the end
are not mutually exclusive.
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