We think of investigation as a road to truth, and truth as the goal of an investigation.  Yet time and again, high-visibility investigations of public scandals not only fail to uncover the truth, they seem to redirect the focus in the wrong direction.  The Department of Defense’s (DoD) investigations of the detainee abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison are a recent example of this.  With the departure of the Bush Administration, there is renewed interest in examining both the Abu Ghraib scandal and other aspects of the administration’s interrogation policies.  

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