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Why is one of the central perpetrators of a systematic torture regime teaching at Berkeley law school and welcomed in our most respectable opinion venues?
  • Last I checked

    the "I was just following orders" was not accepted as a positive defense at the Nuremberg trials. I don't see why it should be so now except that, as you point out, heretofore, War Crimes trials have been about punishing the losers and not real justice, per se.