Responsibility: Flowing Down Hill

By Matthew Yglesias
You know how on TV cops arrest someone low-level then prosecutors try to flip him to convict the higher-ups? Jim Henley notices that when it comes to military investigators looking into misconduct in Iraq things go the other way 'round.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/05/responsibility-flowing-down-hill/42470/