Aussaresses has just written a book about this and apparently doesn't apologize for those tortures.
He was acting under orders coming from politicians.
Now, it's the same debate all over, isn't it?
If politicians say "do whatever is necessary to get this info", does that mean torturing a sheperd (one example I heard last night) who obviously had little contact with the FLN was considered following orders? When frogmen sank the Rainbow Warrior, they were acting under orders; but was the bombing explicitelly ordered or was it again something like "Do whatever is necessary" and in that case who is responsible?
Can't a soldier have any consciousness? Isn't it easier for him to claim following orders?

Raoul