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[butterflyintochains]

Hockey Names That Go Hard

Just a fun little post of some hockey player names that I think are really cool or fascinating.

Kristopher Pierre Joseph Irwin Letang - Tanger, one question, why so many middle names?

Erik Sven Gunnar Karlsson - Go off, viking king!

Oliver Oscar Emanuel Ekman-Larsson

Rickard Lars Gunnar Roland Rakell

Cal Clutterbuck

Nino Niederreiter

Zemgus Girgensons

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Jack St.Ivany - romance movie character much?

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Leon Draisaitl

Mirolsav Satan (yeah, I know it was shah-tahn, but it's still cool)

Rick Rypien (rest in peace, Rypper)

Andreas Athanasiou

Justin Abdelkader (originating from Arabic! Abdul-Qadir)

Jeff Beukeboom

Kevin Shattenkirk

Juraj Slafkovsky

Arber Xhekaj

Darius Kasparaitis

Slater Koekkoek

Ilya Kovalchuk

Alexander Ovechkin

Evgeni Malkin

Jack Studnicka

Rod Brind'Amor

Zach Whitecloud

Elias Fredrik Pettersson - if EK is a viking king, Petey is a viking prince

Teddy Blueger

Magnus Hellberg - love ya, Chopper!

Jesperi Kotkaniemi

Elvis Merzlikins

Igor Shesterkin

Mika Zibanejad

Carter Verhaeghe

Shayne Ghostisbehere

Sergei Gonchar

Zach-Aston Reese

Thatcher Douglas Demko

Garnet Hathaway

Gabriel Landeskog - awesome name for a gorgeous man.

Sidney Patrick Crosby - Irish af and I love it sm.

Patrice Bergeron

Brad Marchand

Daniel Hans Sedin and Henrik Lars Sedin - my beloved super twins!

Zdeno Chara - brief, blunt, and fucking massive.

Andrew Mangiapane

Mats Zuccarello

Teuvo Teravainen

Sergei Bobrovsky

Andrei Vasilevskiy

Rasmus Ristolainen

Dustin Byfuglien - no idea how you get buff-lin from that, but oh well.

Joel Eriksson-Ek

Jonathan Huberdeau - also sounds like a hockey booktok mc.

Kailer Yamamoto

Dakota Joshua - my beloved

Evgeny Kuznetsov

Vincent Desharnais- welcome to Vancouver, Vinny!!

Taro Tsujimoto - if you know, you know!

Henri Jokiharju

Kasperi Kapanen - cat boy extraordinaire!

Jarome Iginla - I know he has like, a million, middle names but I'm not typing all that out.

Nils Hoglander - or, pardon me: Nils - Big Hog - Hoglander!!!

Jonathan Quick - sounds like a superhero!

Rob Klinkhammer

Anze Kopitar

Jaromir Jagr - a badass name for an equally badass man.

Bill Quackenbush

Jordin Tootoo

Jonathan Cheechoo

Radek Bonk, and his son, Oliver Bonk

Jonathan Lekkerimaki - our baby swede!

Gino Odjik - rest in peace, big man!

Ulf Niklas Alexander Edler - miss you, Eagle!! Please come home to us, dad!

Bowie Horvat - Take care of him, Islanders.

If anyone has any others, chuck them in the replies or reblogs!

[deathdyinggrief2024]

Thanatology Bibliography

THANATOLOGY READINGS 

Moll, Rob. (2010). The Art of Dying: Living Fully Into the Life to Come. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN: 9780830837366 

Parkes, C., Laungani, P. and Young, W. (1997). Death and Bereavement Across Cultures. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9780415131377

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alford, John & Catlin, George. (1993). The role of culture in grief. The Journal of Social Psychology, 133(2), 173-84.

Aries, Philippe. (1976). The Hour of Our Death. New York: Bantom.

Burton, Laurel., & Tarlos-Benka, Judy. (1997). Grief-Driven Ethical Decision-Making. Journal of Religion and Health, 36(4), 333-343. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/27511175

Castle, Jason. & Phillips, William. (2003). Grief rituals: Aspects that facilitate adjustment to bereavement. Journal of Loss & Trauma, 8(1), 41-71.

Corr, Charles A., Donna M. Corr, and Kenneth J. Doka. (2019).  Death & Dying, Life & Living. Boston, MA: Cengage.

Crunk, Elizabeth. Burke, Laurie., & Robinson, Mike. (2017). Complicated grief: An evolving theoretical landscape. Journal of Counseling & Development, 95(2), 226-233.

Doughty, Caitlin. (2015). Smoke gets in your eyes and other lessons from the crematory. New York: Northcott. 

Dresser, Norine & Wasserman, Freda. (2010). Saying goodbye to someone you love: Your emotional journey through end-of-life and grief. New York: Demos Medical Publishing. 

Frank, Arthur W. (2013). The wounded storyteller. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Guinther, Paul.,Segal, Daniel. (2003). Gender differences in emotional processing among bereaved older adults. Journal of Loss & Trauma, 8(1), 15-33.

Heath, Yvonne. (2015). Love your life to death: How to plan and prepare for end of life so you can live life fully now. Canada: Marquis Publishing.

Hemer, Susan. (2010). Grief as social experience: Death and bereavement in lihir, papua new guinea¹. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 21(3), 281-297. 

Kalanithi, Paul. (2016). When Breath Becomes Air. New York: Random House.

Kellehear, Allan. (2002). Grief and loss: Past, present and future. Medical Journal of Australia, 177(4), 176-177.

Kwon, Soo-Young. (2006). Grief ministry as homecoming: Framing death from a korean-american perspective. Pastoral Psychology, 54(4), 313-324. doi:10.1007/s11089-005-0002-1

Lawrence, Elizabeth., Jeglic, Elizabeth., Matthews, Laura., & Pepper, Carolyn. (2006). Gender differences in grief reactions following the death of a parent. Omega - Journal of Death and Dying, 52(4), 323-337.

Leone Fowler, Shannon. (2017). Traveling with Ghosts. New York: Simon & Schuster. 

Lewis, Clive Staples. (2009). The Problem of Pain. New York: Harper. 

Lopez, Sandra. (2011). Culture as an influencing factor in adolescent grief and bereavement. Prevention Researcher, 18(3), 10-13.

McCreight, Bernadette. (2004). A grief ignored: Narratives of pregnancy loss from a male perspective.Sociology of Health & Illness, 26(3), 326-350.

Miller, Eric. (2015). Evaluations of hypothetical bereavement and grief: The influence of loss recency, loss type and gender. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International De Psychologie, 50(1), 60-3. doi:10.1002/ijop.12080

Northcott, Herbert.C., & Wilson, Donna.M. (2017). Dying and death in Canada (3rd ed.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

Nuland, Sherwin B. (1995). How We Die. New York: Vintage.

Penman, Emma., Breen, Lauren., Hewitt, Lauren., & Prigerson, Holly. (2014). Public attitudes about normal and pathological grief. Death Studies, 38(8), 510-516.

Rosenstein, Donald L. & Yopp, Justin M. (2018). The Group: Seven widowed fathers reimagine life. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rubinstein, Gidi. (2004). Locus of control and helplessness: Gender differences among bereaved parents. Death Studies, 28(3), 211-223.

Sandburg, Sheryl, & Grant, Adam. (2017). Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 

Schonfeld, Davis., Quackenbush, Mike., & Demaria, Thomas. (2015). Grief across cultures: Awareness for schools. Nasn School Nurse (print), 30(6), 350-2.

Stelzer, Eva-Maria., Atkinson, Ciara., O'Connor, Mary F., & Croft, Alyssa. (2019). Gender differences in grief narrative construction: A myth or reality? European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1),

Stroebe, Margaret., & Schut, Hank. (1998). Culture and grief. Bereavement Care, 17(1).

Swinton, John and Richard Payne. (2009). Living Well and Dying Faithfully. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Tarakeshwar, Nalini., Hansen, Nathan., Kochman, Arlene., & Sikkema, Kathleen. (2005). Gender, ethnicity and spiritual coping among bereaved hiv-positive individuals. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 8(2), 109-125.

Versalle, Alexis. & McDowell, Eugene. (2005). The attitudes of men and women concerning gender differences in grief. Omega - Journal of Death and Dying, 50(1), 53-67.

Walter, Tony. (2010). Grief and culture. Bereavement Care, 29(2), 5-9. 

Walter, Tony. (2010). Grief and culture: A checklist. Bereavement Care, 29(2), 5-9.

Winkel, Heidemarie. (2001). A postmodern culture of grief? On individualization of mourning in Germany. Mortality, 6(1), 65-79.

[chikaraspecial]

After an over three month hiatus, JUSTIN and Kevin Ford are back to discuss the end of Summer CHIKARA events. But first, Kevin and JUSTIN cover all the big topics that occurred during their respite, such as the unmasking of Dasher Hatfield, the pros and cons of the summer baseball stadium tour, Mike Quackenbush’s 25th anniversary tour, the Crucible Chikaratopia exclusive event, and the Action Arcade Wrestling game that may actually come out! From there JUSTIN and Kevin briefly touch on the Lucha Libre Merit Badge event before delving into the fifteen match mega card known as Chikarasaurus Rex in detail, including two title matches, a tournament final, and the first ever meeting of Mike Quackenbush and Joey Janela. Get caught up on CHIKARA scoops before this Saturday’s mega event!

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“In addition to Rivera (The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Visit), Lane (Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Love! Valour! Compassion!; It’s Only a Play), and Baranski (Lips Together, Teeth Apart), the lineup will feature fellow McNally orginators F. Murray Abraham (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune) and Christy Altomare (Anastasia).

The evening will feature performances from Lane and Baranski in Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Abraham in Frankie and Johnny; and Altomare, performing “Journey to the Past”. They will be joined by Michael Urie, Michael Benjamin Washington, Nick Blaemire, and Justin Quackenbush for a scene from Love! Valour! Compassion!”

[rabbittstewcomics]

Episode 275

Comics Reviews:

The Other History of the DC Universe 1 by John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Andrea Cucchi, Jose Villarrubia

Dark Nights: Death Metal - The Multiverse Who Laughs by Scott Snyder, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Brandon Thomas, Joshua Williamson, James Tynion IV, Patton Oswalt, Saladin Ahmed, Scot Eaton, Tom Mandrake, Sanford Greene, Chad Hardin, Juan Gedeon, Norm Rapmund, Hi-Fi, David Baron, Sian Mandrake, Mike Spicer, Enrica Eren Angiolini

Red Hood 51 by Shawn Martinbrough, Tony Akins, Stefano Gaudiano, Paul Mounts

Marvel Action: Chillers 1 by Jeremy Whitley, Seth Smith, Derek Charm, Nahuel Ruiz

Marvel Action: Avengers 1-2 by Katie Cook, Butch Mapa, Protobunker

Power Pack 1 by Ryan North, Nico Leon, Rachelle Rosenberg

X of Swords: Destruction by Jonathan Hickman, Tini Howard, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia

Breaklands vol 2 1 by Justin Jordan, Tyasseta, Sarah Stern, Rachel Deering

Promethee 13:13 by Christophe Bec, Andy Diggle, Shawn Martinbrough

Monstress: Talk Stories 1 by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda

Usagi Yojimbo: Wanderer's Road 1 by Stan Sakai, Ronda Pattison

Witcher: Fading Memories 1 by Bartosz Sztybor, Amad Mir, Hamidreza Sheykh

Kaiju Score 1 by James Patrick, Rem Broo, 

Firefly: Watch How I Soar by Jeff Jensen, Ethan Young, Jorge Corona, Jared Cullum, Giannis Milonogiannis, Jorge Monlongo, Jordi Perez

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera, Celia Moscote

Black of Heart 1 by Chris Charlton, David Hollenbach

Claim 1 by Greg Wright, Mihajlo Dimitrievsk

Dial P for Peanuts by David Hayes, Michael Kary, Kurt Belcher

Mother: A Post Apocalyptic Tale by Eastin DeVerna, Dan Buksa, Gab Contreras

Horror Double Feature 2 by Christopher Charlton, Bob Salley, Ryan Quackenbush, Stan Yak, Robert Nugent

I Walk With Monsters 1 by Paul Cornell, Sally Cantirino, Dearbhla Kelly

Pantomime 1 by Christopher Sebela, David Stoll, Dearbhla Kelly

Additional Reviews: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Owl House s1, We Are The Champions, Parasite, Boys s1, New Teen Titans: Terror of Trigon, Walmart 100pagers

News: Gunn debunks Green Arrow rumor, new Cullen Bunn novel series, Dark Agnes and Daily Bugle cancelled, Mads Mikkelsen cast as Grindelwald, new Lynch Netflix show

Bonus: Obscure/forgotten or little-known runs by renowned creators

Comics Countdown:

Department of Truth 3 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds

Other History of the DC Universe 1 by John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Andrea Cucchi, Jose Villarrubia

Suicide Squad 11 by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas

Undiscovered Country 10 by Charles Soule, Scott Snyder, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Leonardo Marcello, Matt Wilson

Daredevil 24 by Chip Zdarsky, Mike Hawthorne, JP Mayer, Mattia Iacono

Colonel Weird: Cosmagog 2 by Jeff Lemire, Tyler Crook

Nailbiter Returns 7 by Joshua Williamson, Adam Guzowski, Mike Henderson

Scumbag 2 by Rick Remebder, Moreno Dinisio, Andrew Robinson

Superman: Man of Tomorrow 20 by Josh Trujilo, Stephen Byrne

Detective Comics 1030 by Peter Tomasi, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes

Check out this episode!

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Settlement Reached in C.I.A. Torture Case

A settlement in the lawsuit against two psychologists who helped devise the Central Intelligence Agency’s brutal interrogation program was announced on Thursday, bringing to an end an unusual effort to hold individuals accountable for the techniques the agency adopted after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Lawyers for the three plaintiffs in the suit, filed in 2015 in Federal District Court in Spokane, Wash., said the former prisoners were tortured at secret C.I.A. detention sites. The settlement with the psychologists, Dr. Bruce Jessen and Dr. James Mitchell, came after a judge last month urged resolving the case before it headed to a jury trial in early September.

The plaintiffs — two former detainees and the family of a third who died in custody — had sought unspecified punitive and compensatory damages. The terms of the settlement are confidential, and it is unclear whether a financial payout was involved. The parties agreed to a joint statement in which the psychologists said that they had advised the C.I.A. and that the plaintiffs had suffered abuses, but that they were not responsible.

In a phone interview, one of the plaintiffs, Mohamed Ben Soud, said through a translator: “I feel that justice has been served. Our goal from the beginning was justice and for the people to know what happened in this black hole that was run by the C.I.A.’s offices.”

Dror Ladin, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which helped bring the suit, called the case “a historic victory for our clients and for the rule of law.”

The plaintiffs said that Drs. Jessen and Mitchell, former military psychologists, profited from their work as contractors for the C.I.A. The men received up to $1,800 a day and later formed a company that was paid about $81 million to help operate the interrogation program over several years.

The United States government also agreed to indemnify the men and their company, including paying legal fees, judgments and settlements up to $5 million. Some of those funds were used to cover legal bills during Justice Department investigations. As of November 2011, there was close to $4 million left, according to a document made public in the lawsuit.

James T. Smith, the psychologists’ lead counsel, said in a statement that his clients were “public servants whose actions in regard to the interrogation of suspected terrorists were authorized by the U.S. government, legal and done in an effort to protect innocent lives.”

In an interview, Dr. Mitchell said he found it “regrettable that one guy died and those other guys were treated badly,” adding: “We had nothing to do with it. We’re not responsible for it. They say we are, but in my view they’re wrong.”

The psychologists produced a memo in 2002 proposing harsh techniques to be used on terrorism suspects thought to be resisting interrogations. The C.I.A. adopted nearly all of these methods, including waterboarding, stuffing prisoners into small boxes, forcing them to hold painful positions for hours and slamming them into plywood walls.

The so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were based on those used in military survival schools to simulate what service members might undergo if captured by regimes violating the laws of war. They were later condemned as illegal under United States and international law and were ultimately banned. The American Psychological Association consequently prohibited its members from participating in national security interrogations.

As a candidate, President Trump said he would bring back waterboarding “and a hell of a lot worse,” but later said he would defer to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s strong opposition — widespread in the military — to torture and prisoner mistreatment.

The case against the psychologists proceeded despite multiple attempts by their lawyers to have it dismissed. They argued that the men acted solely under the authority of the government and were entitled to the same immunity as government officials. The judge, Justin L. Quackenbush, also denied motions by both sides requesting that he rule summarily in their favor before a trial.

Although there will be no public trial, the case — over its nearly two-year course — expanded public knowledge about the C.I.A.’s torture program. Previously secret documents were declassified, including C.I.A. cables from the covert prisons known as black sites. And the two psychologists, along with the former C.I.A. officials Jose Rodriguez and John Rizzo, were subjected to lengthy questioning by opposing lawyers in video depositions. Their sometimes sterile description of the techniques contrasted with the emotional accounts, in separate depositions, of the men who underwent them.

The plaintiffs and some of their experiences are described in the executive summary of the 6,700-page Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. The report, published in December 2014 and based on a five-year review of over six million pages of documents, lists 38 men known to have been subjected to the techniques in C.I.A. prisons. It denounced the methods as brutal and criticized the C.I.A. for providing false and misleading information to federal officials about the interrogation program’s effectiveness.

The psychologists came into direct contact with only one of the three detainees, Gul Rahman, who died in C.I.A. custody in Afghanistan in 2002, probably of hypothermia, according to an agency investigation into his death.

The judge ruled last week that a trial could also proceed on behalf of the two other former prisoners — Mr. Ben Soud and Suleiman Salim — whose lawyers argued that the psychologists had aided and abetted their torture.

Mr. Ben Soud, a Libyan detained by the C.I.A. in 2003 and held in Afghanistan, was locked in small boxes, slammed against a wall and doused with buckets of ice water while naked and shackled. Mr. Salim, a Tanzanian also captured in 2003 and held by the C.I.A. in Afghanistan, was beaten, isolated in a dark cell for months, doused with water and deprived of sleep.

The A.C.L.U. and the Gibbons law firm of Newark brought the lawsuit under the Alien Tort Statute, which allows foreign citizens to seek justice in United States courts for violations of their rights under international law or United States treaties.

[ebenpink]

Commentaries, Analysis, and Editorials -- July 2, 2019 https://ift.tt/2FNSLac

Reuters

Marco Carnelos, Middle East Eye: Dangerous escalation looms in US-Iran standoff Although Trump seeks a new deal with Tehran, his tactics risk sparking a new war The confrontation between the US and Iran risks ending up as a zero-sum game, with miscalculation or further escalation as the only possible, dangerous outcomes. US President Donald Trump has no appetite for war, but he intends, through renewed sanctions, to force Iran back to the negotiating table and get a new and better nuclear deal than the one signed in 2015. He believes that his unique negotiating skills - sharpened in Manhattan’s real-estate industry, and to which he also dedicated a book - will achieve this goal. The problem is that in such a process he could wind up in a new conflict, rather than reaching a new deal. Read more ....

Commentaries, Analysis, and Editorials -- July 2, 2019

Know This: A U.S.-Iran War Would Not Be Fought Only in Iran -- Seth J. Frantzman, National Interest Sino-US relations enter ‘new normal’ stage -- Zhang Jingwei, Asia Times What's next for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement? -- Casey Quackenbush, Al Jazeera China Fears A Soviet-Style Collapse in Hong Kong -- Grant Newsham, National Interest Hong Kong and Taiwan preview China's future -- Joseph Bosco, The Hill Why Myanmar is losing the Rakhine war -- Anthony Davis, Asia Times India staring at a water apocalypse -- Saikat Datta, Asia Times The Indo-Pacific Is the New Asia -- Melissa Conley Tyler, Lowy Interpreter What Is the US Coast Guard Doing in the Indo-Pacific? -- Jay Tristan Tarriela, Diplomat Haftar-Turkey tensions risk proxy war in Libya -- AFP A new cold war in Africa -- Mehari Taddele Maru, Al Jazeera Trump-Putin Meeting: Where Does Russia Go from Here? -- Dimitri Alexander Simes, National Interest Justin Trudeau vs. the world: How the next government can reclaim Canada’s place on the international stage -- Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail How Long Can John Bolton Take This? -- Graeme Wood, The Atlantic Trump’s Reluctance to Bomb Foreign Countries Is a Strength -- Andrew Bacevich, L.A. Times from War News Updates https://ift.tt/302fkPW via IFTTT

[korrektheiten]

Contra-Mag.:Zwei Psychologen, die im Auftrag der CIA Foltertechniken entwickelten, müssen sich nun vor Gericht verantworten. Das ist das erste mal, dass jemand wirklich für Waterboarding & Co geradestehen muss. Von Marco Maier Am 7. August ordnete Richter Justin Quackenbush vom Bezirksgericht in Spokane ein Gerichtsverfahren gegen zwei Psychologen an, die im Jahr 2002 von der ... http://dlvr.it/PdY2YM

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CHIKARA’s longest running annual tradition is here again, as sixteen competitors aged 25 years or younger will compete for the prize of the coveted Young Lions Cup! Wrestlers from all around the country are represented, and JUSTIN and Kevin will tell you who they think will take the Cup home! Additionally, two Tag World Grand Prix qualifying matches are discussed, including the return of two favorites, and a big grudge match that has a world of promise.

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Man suffers seizure in court as federal judge wraps up arguments - Fri, 28 Jul 2017 PST

U.S. District Court Judge Justin Quackenbush was forced to suspend court on Friday after a man suffered a seizure during the judge’s final statements. Man suffers seizure in court as federal judge wraps up arguments - Fri, 28 Jul 2017 PST

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Judge Orders Lawsuit Against CIA Torture Architects to Go to Trial

Judge Orders Lawsuit Against CIA Torture Architects to Go to Trial

On August 7, Judge Justin Quackenbush of the U.S. District Court in Spokane ordered a lawsuit against two psychologists who helped design the CIA’s post-9/11 “enhanced interrogation” program to go to a jury trial in September. The lawsuit, Salim v. Mitchell, was filed by the ACLU in 2015 on behalf of three former detainees, one of whom died in CIA custody.

The defendants, psychologists James…

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Jury to decide fate of CIA torture psychologists

Jury to decide fate of CIA torture psychologists

[ad_1] A federal judge has ruled that a jury should decide whether two psychologists who helped design the CIA’s harsh interrogation methods used in the so-called war on terror should be held accountable for the suffering. US District Judge Justin Quackenbush refused on Friday to immediately rule in favour of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which brought the lawsuit on behalf of three…

[deniscollins]

2 Psychologists in C.I.A. Interrogations Can Face Trial, Judge Rules

What would you do if you were a psychologist asked by the C.I.A. to oversee alleged terrorists being tortured in secret places, including stuffing detainees into small boxes, slamming them against walls and waterboarding them. alleged terrorists being tortured in secret places: (1) accept the work, (2) reject the work? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision?

A federal court judge refused on Friday to drop a lawsuit against two psychologists who helped devise the C.I.A.’s interrogation program after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, clearing the way for the case to proceed to a trial in September.

The suit is one of the few attempts to hold people accountable for harm caused by the Central Intelligence Agency’s program in the years after the 2001 attacks.

The three plaintiffs had argued that they were detained and tortured in secret C.I.A. prisons using techniques designed by the two former military psychologists, who served as C.I.A. contractors. Most of the techniques used against the detainees have since been banned by the United States government.

At a hearing in United States District Court in Spokane, Wash., Judge Justin L. Quackenbush said he would deny motions by both sides to rule summarily in their favor in advance of a trial. However, he said he would issue a written ruling as to whether the case could go forward on behalf of two of the plaintiffs, who never came into contact with the defendants.

The judge admonished the lawyers to try to resolve the case before a trial, noting that the psychologists are being indemnified by the United States government. 

“I will not allow it to become a political trial on ‘Did the then-Bush administration do wrong in its reaction to interrogation of detainees following 9/11 of ’01?’ That’s not what this trial is about,” Judge Quackenbush said at the hearing.

Instead, he said, the trial would focus on whether the plaintiffs “were subjected to torture, and if so, did the defendants aid and abet — legally aid and abet and factually aid and abet — that torture?”

Lawyers for the former detainees accused the two defendants, the former military psychologists James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen, “aided and abetted the torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” suffered by their clients.

Two of the three plaintiffs had no direct contact with the defendants. But they argued that the psychologists’ role in drafting the list of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that the C.I.A. adopted — using them on detainees and promoting them within the government — had a substantial effect on the treatment the detainees endured. The psychologists also profited, receiving up to $1,800 a day as consultants and later forming a company that took in $81 million to carry out and expand the C.I.A.’s interrogation program over several years.

Lawyers for Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Jessen offered evidence that they said refuted the allegations against their clients. They said the psychologists deserved the same legal immunity enjoyed by government officials because it was the C.I.A. — not the defendants — that decided which detainees would be interrogated using the techniques the defendants had proposed.

Those techniques included stuffing detainees into small boxes, slamming them against walls and waterboarding them. The government provided assurances that the techniques were legal for use on the person they were originally proposed for — Abu Zubaydah, a captured terrorism suspect — and later other high-value detainees.

The proposed techniques were not intended to cause severe physical or mental pain or suffering, the lawyers added, and thus did not violate the prohibition against torture.

In urging the judge to rule in their favor, both sides referred in court filings to trials for crimes committed in the Holocaust. In one example that the defense lawyers offered, at the Nuremberg trials, a banker was found not guilty of a crime for facilitating large loans to a fund available to the S.S. leader Heinrich Himmler at the Nuremberg trials because that was analogous to a builder providing supplies or raw materials for a house that he knew would be used for an unlawful purpose. By suggesting a list of interrogation techniques to the C.I.A., the current “defendants, at most, provided the ‘raw materials’” and therefore should not be held liable, their lawyers wrote.

They also referred to the case of a technician at a company whose poison gas was used at Auschwitz who was acquitted of responsibility by a British military tribunal because he was not in a position to prevent the gas from going to the concentration camp. In the same way, the current defendants “had no ‘influence’ over the application of EITs on such unknown detainees selected by the CIA,” the psychologists’ lawyers wrote, using an abbreviation for enhanced interrogation techniques.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs responded that in that case, the owner of the Zyklon-B gas company was found guilty. “Thus, even though it was solely the Nazis who controlled whether gas would be used on prisoners, and solely the Nazis who decided upon the victims, Bruno Tesch, the owner, was hanged,” they argued. “Like Mr. Tesch, defendants had control over assistance to the C.I.A. program, both personally and as the owners of Mitchell, Jessen & Associates. As a matter of law, that is more than sufficient.”

The defendants had also moved to exclude as hearsay any evidence from the executive summary of the 6,700-page Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. They argued that the summary — published in December 2014 and based on a five-year review of over six million pages of documents, most of them from the C.I.A. itself — was partisan and not trustworthy or reliable. Judge Quackenbush denied their motion, but reserved the right to change his opinion for purposes of the trial.

To get a favorable summary judgment, the lawyers would have needed to prove that the relevant facts were beyond dispute. In recent weeks, each side submitted lengthy filings taking issue with the purported facts offered by the other. They also moved to exclude testimony of medical experts hired by opposing counsel who examined the former detainees for post-traumatic stress disorder.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Gibbons law firm of Newark brought the lawsuit under the Alien Tort Statute, which allows foreign citizens to seek justice in United States courts for violations of their rights under international law or United States treaties.

The three former detainees included Mohamed Ben Soud, a Libyan who was detained by the C.I.A. in Afghanistan and was locked in small boxes, slammed against a wall and doused with buckets of ice water while naked and shackled; Suleiman Salim, a Tanzanian captured in 2003 and also held by the C.I.A. in Afghanistan, who was beaten, isolated in a dark cell for months, doused with water and deprived of sleep; and Gul Rahman, who died in C.I.A. custody in Afghanistan in 2002, probably of hypothermia, according to a C.I.A. investigation into his death.

While Dr. Jessen has kept a low profile, Dr. Mitchell has offered himself as a public speaker about his association with the C.I.A. program and his insights on “the minds of those trying to destroy America.” His fee is listed as $15,000 to $25,000 on the site of Worldwide Speakers Group, which states: “Dr. Mitchell led the development of the C.I.A.’s enhanced interrogation program after 9/11 and was a primary interrogator from its inception.”

Addressing the Mensa Annual Gathering in Hollywood, Fla., this month, Dr. Mitchell claimed to have spent more time with terrorists than just about anyone else. “We care more about playing fair than they do,” he said, “and as a result they view it as our weakness and use it against us.”

The morning after Dr. Mitchell spoke, the last living Nuremberg trials prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, 97, took the stage for his own speech at the conference, making an impassioned appeal for upholding the rule of law.

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Bour remolca 3 con jonrón; Marlins derrotan a Padres

Abogado Medellín | 320 542-9469 APJustin Bour disparó un jonrón de tres carreras para coronar un racimo de seis anotaciones en la sexta entrada, y los Marlins de Miami derrotaron el domingo 7-3 a los Padres de San Diego.Los primeros... Justin Bour disparó un jonrón de tres carreras para coronar un racimo de seis anotaciones en la sexta entrada, y los Marlins de Miami derrotaron el domingo 7-3 a los Padres de San Diego. Los primeros seis bateadores de los Marlins se embasaron y anotaron en el sexto capítulo. Así, Tom Koehler (1-1) consiguió su primera victoria de la temporada. El dominicano Luis Perdomo salió de la lista de los lesionados y anuló a los Marlins durante cinco actos, antes de desmoronarse en el sexto. El venezolano Martín Prado inauguró el inning con un sencillo, Christian Yelich tramitó un boleto y Giancarlo Stanton pegó un sencillo productor que puso fin a la faena de Perdomo. Craig Stammen (0-1) subió a la lomita y recibió un doblete productor del dominicano Marcell Ozuna. La pelota se le escapó por muy poco a Wil Myers. J.T. Realmuto agregó un sencillo productor al bosque izquierdo, antes de que Bour sonara su batazo por todo el jardín derecho, para llegar a tres bambinazos en la campaña. Kevin Quackenbush llegó al relevo y sacó tres outs consecutivos. Por los Marlins, el venezolano Prado de 5-1 con una anotada. El dominicano Ozuna de 4-1 con una anotada y una producida. El cubano Adeiny Hechavarría de 4-1. Por los Padres, los dominicanos Manuel Margot de 3-2 con una anotada, Erick Aybar de 4-1, Perdomo de 2-0. Los venezolanos Yangervis Solarte de 3-1 con una anotada y una producida, Luis Sardiñas de 4-0, Luis Torrens de 3-0. El panameño Allen Córdoba de 4-1.April 23, 2017 at 02:28PM via Bour remolca 3 con jonrón; Marlins derrotan a Padres http://firmadeabogadosmedellin.blogspot.com/2017/04/bour-remolca-3-con-jonron-marlins.html

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Judge Allows Lawsuit Against Psychologists in C.I.A. Torture Case

Sheri Fink The New York Times Originally published January 29, 2017 A federal judge on Friday allowed a case brought by former detainees to move forward against two American psychologists who helped devise the C.I.A.’s now-defunct program to interrogate terrorism suspects using techniques widely considered to be torture. A United States District Court judge, Justin L. Quackenbush, denied a motion by the psychologists that sought to dismiss the case for lack of jurisdiction under provisions of a 2006 law that limits the ability of detainees to challenge their treatment. “This ruling sends the strong signal that anyone who participates in shameful and unlawful government torture can’t count on escaping accountability in a court of law,” said Dror Ladin, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which, with the Gibbons law firm in Newark, represents the former detainees. The article is here.