| Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2004 : 12 September 2004 |
chain of command - A system for transmitting commands downward and information upward. Modern electronic implementations often include diodes to prevent responsibility for errors from being traced to their origin at the top, but high-voltage events may bypass this protection. (See Abu Ghraib.)
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