are being treated like second-class citizens and are being forced to give up their constitutional rights.

 

Justice O’Connor wrote a bitter dissent:

 

In my view, conduct of the type alleged in this case is so far beyond the bounds of human decency that as a matter of law it simply cannot be considered a part of the military mission . . . [and we] cannot insulate defendants from liability for deliberate and calculated exposure of otherwise healthy military personnel to medical experimen-tation without their consent, outside of any combat, combat training, or military exigency, and for no other reason than to gather information on the effect of lysergic acid diethylamide on human beings.

No judicially crafted rule should insul- ate from liability the involuntary and un- kno...

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