There's been a failure of accountability for detainee abuse at the command level. Without accountability up the chain of command, there won't be deterrence, and the torture and abuses we've documented likely will continue.
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For three years now, the administration has been sending the message that cruel and inhuman treatment is OK. Now the McCain amendment is going to wipe all of that away. It reminds everybody who's on the front line that the rules are the rules, and if somebody tells you they don't apply, don't listen to them.Elisa Massimino
That's why the McCain amendment is important, and that's why this language they're floating now would gut it,
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Depriving an entire branch of government of its ability to exercise meaningful oversight is a decidedly wrong course to take.
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I just wish we could get through to people that picking up a Salvadoran general in Miami and telling him he has to retire in Costa Rica is not a punishment. Yeah, you're evil, but you can go be evil somewhere else.
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Our findings reveal a picture of military discipline from which the doctrine of command responsibility is completely absent.
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