Describe how people psychologically evade dealing with in-group responsibility for bad actions. Start off by relating this to the events at Abu Ghraib and/or Guantanamo

In general, what cognitive technique might be helpful in reducing feelings of responsibility?
What will be an ideal response?

Answer:
1. People can blame the victims; they deserved what they received.
2. The victims were so heinous they were really not humans, thus undeserving of humane treatment.
3. The actions served such a higher moral purpose, defending the nation, that any action is justified. This can be called "moral disengagement."
4. Motivated forgetting helps in reducing guilt. Members of an ingroup in an experiment remembered less about actions of their ingroup toward an outgroup than they remembered about "evil" actions taken by an outgroup toward their ingroup.