Though I have every respect for academic freedom, I have no respect for academics who are too lazy, incompetent or devious to bother to fact check their statements.

The Seattle Indymedia collective developed open access blog-form communication for the 1999 Seattle WTO protests.

Seattle Indymedia became the template for the global network of Indymedia news sites.

I know: I served as the only physician with the Direct Action Medical Network - we were based in the convergence center that served as the base of operations for the non-violent protesters fpr the 1999 WTO protests.

(DAMN still holds the record for treating the greatest number of mass casualties from chemical wepons in North American history.)

The Indymedia system provdes web hosting (and moderators) for anyone who wishes to post news stories, and allows comments and discussion of each posting.

This system was up and running in November, 1999.

Prof Yoo appears to be unable to conduct the most basic inquiries regarding matters he chooses to discuss.

I am familiar with academic medicine, but not with academic law. In academic medicine, Prof Yoo's inablity to verify facts would mitigate against publication of his opinions.

Of course, in academic medicine, advocates of torture would be so morally reprehesible as to preclude their inclusion in medical faculties.

Academic law appears to be unencumbered by such etical considerations.

I'd be shocked, shocked if the the WaPopos buried another lede:

Shortly before she sought a "peace order" against Ivins, Duley had completed 90 days of home detention after a drunken-driving arrest in December, and she has acknowledged drug use in her past.

In a 1999 interview with The Washington Post, Duley described her background as a motorcycle gang member and a drug user. "Heroin. Cocaine. PCP," said Duley, who then used the name Jean Wittman. "You name it, I did it."

Hey -- and who says Jean Duley lacks expertise in working with sociopaths?

Social expertise, clinical expertise: what's the big diff?

Gee. Wonder if her buddies in the motorcycle gang always just let Jean bogart her personal heroin/PCP/cociane stash....or if she ever shared a dose or two of her hard drugs with anyone else?

And I wonder what the Federal statute of limitations is for “sharing”? Is that like “distribution”?

Gee. Wonder the statute of limitations for “distribution” is?

Oh well: I’m sure she was never around anyone who "trafficked".

Wonder if Jean Duley (alias Jean Wittman) first ran into criminal trouble when she was using opiates? Or cocaine? Or PCP? Or other DEA controlled “you name it”?

Naah. Feds and local law enforcement never force former opiate abusers/"hard drug" abusers into serving as informants — do they?

Bonus wonder: what criminal charges show up (or were sealed) for Jean Wittman? Any drug diversion(s)?

Naah — the WaPopos would have already checked that out, right?

I’d be shocked, shocked if they hadn’t.

(h/t FDL contributors re the WaPo article)

I'd be shocked, shocked if the the WaPopos buried another lede:

Shortly before she sought a "peace order" against Ivins, Duley had completed 90 days of home detention after a drunken-driving arrest in December, and she has acknowledged drug use in her past.

In a 1999 interview with The Washington Post, Duley described her background as a motorcycle gang member and a drug user. "Heroin. Cocaine. PCP," said Duley, who then used the name Jean Wittman. "You name it, I did it."

Hey -- and who says Jean Duley lacks expertise in working with sociopaths?

Social expertise, clinical expertise: what's the big diff?

Gee. Wonder if her buddies in the motorcycle gang always just let Jean bogart her personal heroin/PCP/cociane stash....or if she ever shared a dose or two of her hard drugs with anyone else?

And I wonder what the Federal statute of limitations is for “sharing”? Is that like “distribution”?

Gee. Wonder the statute of limitations for “distribution” is?

Oh well: I’m sure she was never around anyone who "trafficked".

Wonder if Jean Duley (alias Jean Wittman) first ran into criminal trouble when she was using opiates? Or cocaine? Or PCP? Or other DEA controlled “you name it”?

Naah. Feds and local law enforcement never force former opiate abusers/"hard drug" abusers into serving as informants — do they?

Bonus wonder: what criminal charges show up (or were sealed) for Jean Wittman? Any drug diversion(s)?

Naah — the WaPopos would have already checked that out, right?

I’d be shocked, shocked if they hadn’t.

(h/t FDL contributors re the WaPo article)

kirk murphy

BTW. Is that Kirk James Murphy, MD contributor at FDL?

Well, that certainly makes Jean Duley's credentials and group work make more sense. So, okay. She's more a drug counselor than a therapist. And, it does open another possible avenue for exploring her vulnerabilities with respect to Bruce Ivins.

Thanks for that WaPo link.

-- bystander

Yep, same person.

Glad the WaPopo link useful: h/t to the fdl contributor (not me) who brought it to the other contributors' attention last night.