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Re:CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison by gscott on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:20PM (#16578940)
You are given a task. "Torture terrorists for intelligence" you are not given high quality terrorists and you get pretty much nothing. It gets shut down, shred the evidence. As an employee is this your problem or the problem of the person who gave you this task?
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Re:CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison by gumby on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:55PM (#16579212)
It's a crime under Geneva Convention to obey an illegal order (unless, I believe, you think you will killed if you don't obey). It's also a crime under the same conventions to give an illegal order.

This was the basis of the Nuremberg and Tokyo war trials.

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Re:CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison by yusee on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:33PM (#16579045)
Torturing people deemed to be terrorists is not intelligent, it's a war crime, and it's everybody's problem.
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Re:CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison by cwkoss on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:28PM (#16579002)
Both. Torture is criminal.
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Re:CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison by matt4077 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:38PM (#16579073)
This question was probably answered most eloquently in Hannah Arendt’s report on the Eichmann trial, The Banality of Evil.

But to summarize:

> is this your problem or the problem of the person who gave you this task?

Yes

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