Nope. Didn’t she also quit and was going to sue CTU?
This season is clearly portraying the ‘hawks’ as being in the wrong. There was a whole plot thread where they were detaining Arabs, and Palmer’s sister was fighting it - then it looked like some of the detainees were terrorists and the hawks were right to detain them - so they set up a whole sting operation to get details, and in the end it turned out that these guys weren’t terrorists at all and the government wasted a lot of precious time and resources on a wild goose chase.
The Palmers have been portrayed as consistently good, strong, capable - and Democrat. This season has the Powers Boothe character who comes across as a Dick Cheney clone - and so far he looks like a bad guy.
Frankly, I think the show is pretty even-handed. There are good guys who are Republicans, good guys who are Democrats, and bad guys on both sides.
Of course, to people who think that ‘The West Wing’ was a model of ideological balance, ‘24’ probably looks right-wing.
The only one I can think of offhand is Andrew Sullivan, and he’s been cast out by the true movement conservatives.
It’s like any policy point. There will always be some people in any party who disagree with a particular position that their party holds. And there will be some people with the opposition who support it. But there are general trends.
The right-wing in general is more pro-torture and the left-wing is more anti-torture.
Interestingly – the show has actually become must more relaxed about torture techniques as standard operating procedure in the last 4 seasons. In the first season, I don’t recall any specific government sanctioned torture (unless I’ve forgotten something). Now, Jack certainly did beat the crap out of anybody that he thought necessary – but most of that wasn’t officially sanctioned “torture”, as Jack was pretty much going rogue for most of the season.
Season 2, they explored the whole idea of the President deciding whether to use what would be considered illegal and over-the-line interrogation – when David Palmer made the decision to have the secret service guy question Roger Stanton with his feet in a bucket of water and shock paddles applied to his head. They portrayed the decision as greatly troubling to Palmer, and he was struggling with the notion of his going too far vs. need of the country in the face of a nuke. I thought it was well done. In season 2, the whole idea was presented as a moral dilemma.
Since then, Magic Pain Juice seems to have become standard operating procedure in the detainment rooms at CTU. That wasn’t the norm in seasons 1 and 2. Heck – Michelle questioned Sayed Ali in season 2 by just… gasp asking him questions!
But by season 3 – they’d apparently decided on their moral dilemma quickly. I think they first brought the pain serum into play on Gael in season 3 – before Tony quickly recovered from Neck Bullet Surgery and rushed in to stop the Gael Torture Session and tell everybody “He’s a double mole, really secretly working at CTU headquarters for US!”
She chose to keep working there, but asked for some kind of compensation for what she went through. She was fired for that for not being focused enough on the task at hand.