Judge Won’t Order Inquiry Over Psychologist’s Role in Guantánamo

[choie]

Source: New York Times


New York State cannot be forced to investigate a psychologist accused by a human rights organization of overseeing coercive interrogation tactics at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a judge in Manhattan ruled on Thursday.


The rights group, the Center for Justice and Accountability, had brought a suit claiming that the psychologist, John Francis Leso, helped develop a plan of coercive techniques, including sleep deprivation and isolation, to use on detainees at Guantánamo. The suit was brought on behalf of Steven Reisner, a psychologist and an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. It sought an investigation of Dr. Leso by a professional disciplinary office in the state’s Education Department that regulates psychologists’ licenses.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/nyregion/judge-wont-order-inquiry-over-psychologists-role-in-guantanamo.html?ref=nyregion

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Is nobody to be held accountable for their crimes and lack of ethics?????

[asjr]

1. It makes me wonder. Perhaps they

are afraid if they order an investigation on this it would open such a large can of worms for other cases they would be deluged with it. That is no excuse because someone needs to pay the piper about such anti-American actions by our government. And the main criminals are going free.

[gratuitous]

2. Isn't it nice how nobody's accountable for our crimes against humanity?

But we sure do dish up the blame for other countries! Heaping helpings of blame, even for folks who weren't alive at the time of the atrocities. We're very assiduous in making sure the Germans and the Japanese keep their own sins front and center of national life. But for us, it's "Abu Ghraib? Never heard of it, and neither have you."

[Mnemosyne]

3. How many are there that we do not know about? Been heavy on my mind for a few years. n/t

[gratuitous]

4. A very good point

We surely don't have all the information about what our tax dollars are paying for around the world, but it's a cinch that the victims of our policies are keenly aware of who's doing what to them. I hope they treat us better than we have treated them, even if we don't deserve it. Which is why I'd really like the Department of Justice to get on this, as I don't particularly feel like bearing the brunt of the revenge for illegal policies and operations.

[Mnemosyne]

6. The DOJ is a huge joke the last eleven years, sadly it will not happen. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

5. The public has the right to know who these people are. It's part of their history now.

To conceal their own personal involvement with prisoners of war is an absolute crime.