ABSTRACT
From the elaborate legal justifications in the Department of Justice and the White House to agency and individual decisions, the welfare of anyone other than United States officials and citizens was simply not considered. It is not, however, a foregone conclusion that taking notice of the perspectives of others and the actions they inform will result in a better outcome or in a more astute process of ethical judgment. This chapter begins by noting that the Obama administration has declined to prosecute individuals who were involved in articulating, planning, interpreting and enacting enhanced interrogation techniques on those detained during the War on Terror in the interest of moving on. In the George W. Bush administration a handful of determined individuals leveraged the power of their positions and the shock, grief and anger of 9/11 to aggressively and quickly implement a series of policies, programs and institutional doctrines.
