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FormerOstrich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 10:19 PM
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She is so misunderstood- - - (Ms Duley resurfaces)
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Well, if this was her attempt to clarify and tie up the loose ends for us, there are as many holes in this as there was her other statements (just less shrill).

emphasis and comments are mine

On the morning of July 10, Jean C. Duley decided she had a phone call to make. She had agonized all night. Her counseling client, Bruce E. Ivins, had announced in a group therapy session the evening before that he was a suspect in the 2001 anthrax investigation and had a plan to kill his co-workers.

From her desk at Comprehensive Counseling Associates in Frederick, Duley called the Frederick Police Department to report Ivins's threats.
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"Everyone thinks I was complicit with the FBI," Duley said in an interview Friday. "The FBI didn't tell me anything." No? They didn't tell you anything? Nothing about five capital murders? What about the Grand Jury? Nothing?
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Duley, 45, appeared exhausted and tearful Friday as she sat in the Towson, Md., office of her attorney, Kathleen Cahill, drinking 7-Eleven coffee, clutching tissue and telling her story for the first time. She would not discuss any aspect of her professional relationship with Ivins, citing patient confidentiality. ....

Duley would discuss only the wrenching decision to override patient confidentiality and report Ivins to law enforcement, a move that brought her into a sprawling FBI investigation cloaked in secrecy and surveillance.

"I care about every single one of my clients," Duley said. "They are humans, no matter what they do. All I was trying to do was the right thing. I was just trying to do my job."

Duley is not a psychiatrist, a psychologist or even a social worker; in the highly stratified world of mental health, she is an addictions counselor who earns $20 an hour.
Why was it her that reported him? Why did she not report everything to her employer and they take appropriate action? Are additions counselor's bound by client/patient privilege?
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Duley said she was trembling as she sat on a bench outside the clerk's office completing the form. In hastily scribbled handwriting, Duley wrote, "Client has a history dating to his graduate days of homicidal threats, actions, plans, threats & actions towards therapist." Hey! The woman must read the internets and know what we were saying. Plus, I still have my little chuckle that all the homicidal threats and action aren't against the population at large but THERIPISTS (they spell checked for her)

She said she asked her attorney if the hearing could be held in closed chambers. "Believe it or not, even with all this, I was still trying to protect Bruce's anonymity," Duley said. I think she is explaining how ethical and right she is
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In January, Duley was hired by Comprehensive Counseling Associates in Frederick to launch a program that used the drug suboxone to treat people addicted to painkillers. She would not describe her interaction with Ivins, but during the restraining-order hearing she said she saw him once a week for group therapy and every other week on an individual basis. Why was he in her group? Was he addicted to pain killers? If so, what were they initially prescribed for?
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The psychiatrist who owns Comprehensive Counseling Associates, Allan Levy, refused to comment on the case, according to his attorney, J. Eric Rhoades.

Duley said she no longer works at the clinic; she would not discuss her reasons for leaving.
Could it be her employer interpreted things less pro-FBI
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Duley said she thought about attending Ivins's memorial service last week at Fort Detrick. "It's complicated," Yes, it is! she said, her eyes filling with tears. But she stayed away.

I edited out the part of where she was so fearful of Ivins she had been sleeping on the couch so she could be aware. Later they report about her going into hiding from the media. So she apparently was more frightened of the media than the mass murderer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080902108_3.html?hpid=moreheadlines




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