Authorizers of torture escaped accountability while being publicly honored.

Evidence

Neither the concoctors of the brutal methods nor the higher-level officials who authorized their use were held accountable for the program, which they carried out in the name of national security. In a height of irony, George Tenet, who had presided over the CIA and had asserted that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2392

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2392