Bog'liq The Lucifer Effect Understanding How Good People Turn Evil ( PDFDrive )
The Lucifer Effect COL Blotz encouraged COL Pappas to cooperate with the CIA because everyone
was all one team. COL Blotz directed LTC Jordan to cooperate [as well]."
Creating an Unhealthy Work Environment The way in which such "above and beyond the law" undercover work by CIA op-
eratives contributed to a cancerous environment is elaborated in Fay/Jones with
a psychological analysis:
The death of DETAINEE-28 and incidents such as the loaded weapon in
the interrogation room, were widely known within the US community (MI
and MP alike) at Abu Ghraib. Speculation and resentment grew out of a
lack of personal responsibility, of some people being above the laws and
regulations. The resentment contributed to the unhealthy environment
that existed at Abu Ghraib. The death of DETAINEE-28 remains unre-
solved.
The operational use of anonymity as a protective shield to get away with
murder is noted in passing: "CIA officers operating at Abu Ghraib used alias [sic] and never revealed their true names."
When the Self-Serving Claims of the MPs Turn Out to Be True The Fay/Jones investigation offers support for the claims by Chip Frederick and
other night shift MPs that many of their abusive actions were encouraged and
supported by a variety of individuals working for military intelligence in their
unit:
The MPs being prosecuted claim that their actions came at the direction of
MI. Although self-serving, these claims do have some basis in fact. The en- vironment created at Abu Ghraib contributed to the occurrence of such abuse and the fact that it remained undiscovered by higher authority for a long period of time. What started out as nakedness and humiliation, stress and physi-
cal training [exercise], carried over into sexual and physical assaults by a
small group of morally corrupt and unsupervised Soldiers and civilians.
[Italics added for emphasis.]
These investigating generals repeatedly make evident the major roles played
by systemic and situational factors in the abuses. However, they cannot give up
the dispositional attribution of the perpetrators as the few "morally corrupt" in-
dividuals, the so-called bad apples in an otherwise flawless barrel filled to the brim
with "the noble conduct of the vast majority of our Soldiers."
Decent Dogs Doing Dirty Deeds The Fay/Jones Report was one of the first to detail and fault some of the "ac-
cepted" tactics used to facilitate effective interrogations. For example, it notes that
the use of dogs was imported by Major General Geoffrey Miller from Gitmo prison