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Leso is alleged to have participated in the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani, a young man captured in Afghanistan and referred to as the "20th hijacker".
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The roll call of US officials implicated in torture is long, yet not one of them has been held accountable: George W Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, psychologists Col Larry James and John Leso, among others.
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Maj Leso recommended three categories of interrogation severity at Guantánamo, depending on the prisoners' ability to resist.
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This week, the New York state supreme court will hear the case against Dr John Leso, a psychologist who is accused of participating in torture at the Gitmo prison camp that Obama pledged, and failed, to close.
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Leso is known to have participated in the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani, an interrogation recently described as meeting the legal definition of “torture” by Susan Crawford, the Pentagon official appointed by President Bush to coordinate the military commission trials.
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Leso is well known to psychologists as the American Psychological Association has failed to sanction him for violating professional ethics despite the existence of ethics complains filed over three years ago.
OpEdNews - Diary: Government admits al Qahtani's torture was videotaped 2009
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The charges against Leso related to those against Peege and included amonth others a charge of gross negligence in that he allowed the company to conclude an agreement with a British company for runway lights without arranging for forward exchange cover against losses.
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Peege was found guilty on ten charges of misconduct, while Leso was found guilty on six charges.
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Peege and Leso were on Friday found guilty on a number of charges brought against them during a disciplinary committee hearing.
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Peege and Leso were suspended by the airport board earlier this year following allegations of gross irregularities within the airport's management.
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