Outsourcing torture to proxy nations displaced moral responsibility for it.

Evidence

In addition, responsibility for torturous interrogation practices was displaced by outsourcing them to proxy agents. Abducted foreign suspects were shipped for interrogation to overseas countries that torture detainees. As one intelligence official put it: “We don’t kick the shit out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the shit out of them” (Cosgrove-Mather, 2004). This brutal policy, carried out by proxy torturers, was cloaked in an innocuous name, “extraordinary rendition.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2403 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The US frames alliances with Egyptian dictators as terrorism-war pacts to justify outsourcing torture — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 42; The war-on-terror framing rationalizes outsourcing torture to allied regimes; Governments obscure torture by outsourcing it to proxy torturers with euphemistic names — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2403 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Governments obscure torture by outsourcing it to proxy torturers with euphemistic names #corroborates (0.92) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2403