> they didn't explicitly say to do something horrible like this, so they're off the hook As you said, this is what's frustrating. More power should always be t

> they didn't explicitly say to do something horrible like this, so they're off the hook As you said, this is what's frustrating. More power should always be tethered to more responsibility. Their tacit authorization of these tactics should have put them on trial as well. But, the more frustrating thing is how quickly these sorts of abuses are forgiven and swept under the rug. It's as if once you get high enough up then society's sunk cost aversion kicks in and everyone suddenly finds it so hard to believe that someone they implicitly gave power to could have done something wrong. My take is this presents an existential dilemma: what if the people we've given power to aren't the most worthy? It is easier to buy your way out of this by writing off an incident like this as merely a fluke. The system is broken, and the brokenness is by design.