You Can Take the Torturer Out of Catholic School, But You Can't Take the Catholic School Out of the Torturer

On Morning Edition today, author Mark Danner (Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and The War on Terror) criticized the Church Report, claiming it fails to look at the policy decisions that led to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. He said we would never really know the truth for investigations always look down the chain of command instead of looking up the chain of command.

So I thought, well, of course, that's because the chain of command never wears patent leather shoes.