the key to this season of 24...

is to be found in this article on Salon about our Extraordinary Rendition Program:

The rendition teams are drawn from paramilitary officers who are brave and colorful. They are the men who went into Baghdad before the bombs and into Afghanistan before the army. If they didn't do paramilitary actions for a living, they would probably be robbing banks. Perhaps the Bush administration deliberately created a gray area on renditions. [Emphasis Eliel's--Ed.]

Jack and Graeme Bauer are cut from the same cloth. The difference is that Jack found an official state-sanctioned outlet for his sociopathic tendencies, while Graeme seems to have tried to sublimate his urges into his suburban family, but has (based on his appearances in previous seasons) not been very successful in curbing his need for more adrenaline.