虽然两桩案子都没有提到发生在阿布格勒布监狱的虐囚丑行及美国政府重量级律师们炮制的，授权虐待行为的秘密备忘录，但这两点很可能也是影响法官判决的原因。
Although nowhere mentioned in either case, the scandalous treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the revelations that high-level government lawyers prepared confidential memoranda authorizing torture, likely played a part in the Justices' reasoning.