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Just Following Orders

Posted on June 28, 2009, 7:18 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Just Following Orders [I]t can never be maintained that a military officer can justify himself for doing an unlawful act, by producing the order of his superior. Chief Justice Taney, Mitchell v. Harmony, 54 U.S. 115, 137 (1851)[1] Last time, we started with the premise that the MPs who abused the detainees […]

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