Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Dave Drum:

 DD>> Now where did you get that? Just because some Bushie-biased lawyers
 DD>> wrote a memo or two on it does not make it legal. You are still
 DD>> trying to traverse that chasm in two leaps, Dan.

 DC> Take a look at the legal wiggling already going on.  Many, if not all
 DC> of  those directly involved in the torture have basically given the
 DC> out of  "We were just following orders".  The US did not allow that
 DC> during the  Nuremburg trials.  

"I was only following orders" has been a perfectly acceptable defense for
US government employees involved in the commission of various atrocities
since at least 1993 and probably longer.

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