John Bellinger Bellinger III is an American lawyer who served as the Legal Adviser for the U.S. Department of State and the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration. He is now a partner at the Washington,D.C. law firm Arnold &Porter,and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Morris Durham "Moe" Davis is an American retired U.S. Air Force colonel,attorney,educator,politician,and former administrative law judge.
Richard J. Leon is an American jurist who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp,also known as GTMO or GITMO,is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB),on the coast of Guantánamo Bay,Cuba. It was established in January 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects and "illegal enemy combatants" during the Global War on Terrorism following the attacks of September 11,2001. As of August 2024,at least 780 persons from 48 countries have been detained at the camp since its creation,of whom 740 had been transferred elsewhere,9 died in custody,and 30 remain;only 16 detainees have ever been charged by the U.S. with criminal offenses.
Charles D. Swift is an American attorney and former career Navy officer,who retired in 2007 as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He is most noted for having served as defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan,a detainee from Yemen who was the first to be charged at Guantanamo Bay;Swift took his case to the US Supreme Court. In 2005 and June 2006,the National Law Journal recognized Swift as one of the top lawyers nationally because of his work on behalf of justice for the detainees.
Clifford Sloan is an attorney and American diplomat who served as Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure at the United States Department of State. Sloan is currently a Dean's Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and retired partner for Skadden,Arps,Slate,Meagher &Flom LLP and Affiliates. Previously,Sloan was the publisher of Slate magazine.
Charles Douglas "Cully" Stimson is an American lawyer and government official. Stimson served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs from 2005 until his resignation on February 2,2007,following a controversy about his statements on legal representation for prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Following his time in the George W. Bush administration,Stimson joined The Heritage Foundation,where he is currently a senior legal fellow and manager of the National Security Law Program. Earlier in his career,Stimson served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and as Vice President for Private Equity Mergers &Acquisitions at Marsh &McLennan Companies.
Jeffrey D. "J.D." Gordon is an American communications and foreign policy adviser,who served as a Pentagon spokesman during the George W. Bush administration and later a national security adviser to Donald Trump. Gordon is a retired United States Navy officer who was a senior adviser to numerous prominent Republican political figures. Gordon has also been a television commentator and columnist with various media outlets including One America News Network,Fox News,Sky News,The Daily Caller,USA Today,The Hill,The Washington Times and others. Gordon founded Protect America Today,a national security–themed Super PAC in February 2012.
Jennifer C. Daskal is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Tech,Law,Security Program at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington,D.C. Her work focuses on terrorism,national security,and criminal law.
Will A. Gunn is an American lawyer and former officer in the American Armed Forces. Gunn was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the new general counsel for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. He attended the United States Air Force Academy,graduating in 1980,and Harvard Law School,graduating in 1986. While at Harvard,he was elected President of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. In 1990 Gunn was a White House Fellow and associate director of Cabinet Affairs. Gunn also has a Masters of Laws degree in Environmental Law from George Washington University Law School and a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Gregory Bestor Craig is an American lawyer and former White House Counsel under President Barack Obama,from 2009 to 2010. A former attorney at the Washington,D.C. law firm of Williams &Connolly,Craig has represented numerous high-profile clients. Prior to becoming White House Counsel,he served as assistant to the President and special counsel in the White House of President Bill Clinton,where he directed the team defending Clinton against impeachment. Craig also served as a senior advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy and to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Shayana D. "Shane" Kadidal is an American lawyer and writer. Kadidal has worked at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City since 2001,and is senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative there,coordinating legal representation for the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba. Previously a writer on patent,drug and obscenity law,since 2001 he has played a role in various notable human rights cases,including:
Phillip Eugene Carter is an American lawyer,writer,and former officer in the United States Army. Carter was a founding member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America,and he also served as a principal of the Truman National Security Project. He was senior fellow and counsel at the Center for a New American Security,and director of the CNAS research program on the Military,Veterans &Society. Beginning September 2018,he served as the Director of the Personnel &Resources Program at the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center in Washington,D.C. Carter now works as corporate counsel for Google,supporting the company's public sector business,and teaches as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Covington &Burling LLP is an American multinational law firm. Known as a white-shoe law firm,it is headquartered in Washington,D.C.,and advises clients on transactional,litigation,regulatory,and public policy matters. The firm has additional offices in Beijing,Brussels,Frankfurt,Dubai,Johannesburg,London,Los Angeles,New York,Palo Alto,San Francisco,Seoul,Shanghai,and Boston.
Andrea J. Prasow is an American attorney and global human rights advocate. She leads The Freedom Initiative,a U.S.-based organization whose mission is "to bring international attention to the plight of political prisoners in the Middle East and advocate for their release." Prasow was appointed as The Freedom Initiative's executive director in November 2021.
Matthew Glen Olsen is an American attorney who has served as the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division since 2021. He is the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Karl R. Thompson is an American lawyer and was the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice from 2014 until 20 January 2017;he served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General during that period.
Lisa Oudens Monaco is an American attorney who has served as the thirty-ninth United States deputy attorney general since April 21,2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
The Periodic Review Boards administrate a US "administrative procedure" for recommending whether certain individuals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba are safe to release or transfer,or whether they should continue to be held without charge. The boards are authorized by and overseen by the Periodic Review Secretariat,which President Barack Obama set up with Executive Order 13567 on March 7,2011.
