MIAMI (Tribune News Service) — A Navy nurse who refused to force-feed Guantanamo prisoners will not face a personnel board and is being returned to regular duties, the nurse’s lawyer said Wednesday. The development likely ends any possibility of a public examination of an episode of “conscience objection” by a Navy lieutenant, a nurse, who abruptly refused to manage tube feedings of prison hunger strikers and was removed from his duties treating captive patients. The naval officer has never been named. His New York City attorney, Ronald Meister, has described him as an 18-year veteran sailor, a one-time enlisted submariner who, at the Navy’s urging, became a nurse and commissioned officer,...
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