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Praise the Lord and Pass the Thumbscrews
...Walker: "Making moral decisions in the workplace where it is easy to go along and get along takes courage. It takes moral strength and courage to say, 'I'm not going to do this because I don't think it's the right thing to do.' "

The report: Officials could escape torture convictions by arguing that they were following superior orders, since such orders "may be inferred to be lawful" and are "disobeyed at the peril of the subordinate."

And so there you have it: Mary L. Walker - Christian, Republican, Patriot, Torture Attorney.

Air Force Ignored Sex Abuse At Academy, Inquiry Reports
NATIONAL DESK | September 23, 2003, Tuesday

ABSTRACT - Civilian commission probing sexual assaults at United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, reports top Air Force leaders disregarded persistent warnings over last decade that frequent and unpunished assaults were undermining academy; says Mary L Walker, Air Force general counsel, largely ignored history of official neglect in her June report in effort to shield leaders from public criticism; holds sexual assault was problem at academy throughout last decade, and possibly since women were first admitted in 1976; commission head Tillie Fowler says problem continues to this day, news conference; findings surprise victims' advocates, who feared panel, named by Defense Sec Donald H Rumsfeld, was biased against women in military; panel releases report after meetings with Rumsfeld and Sec James G Roche