George Brent Mickum IV explained

George Brent Mickum IV is an American lawyer and currently the General Counsel of ERP Compliant Fuels, LLC.[1] [2] Mickum represented three British residents, Bisher Al Rawi, Jamil El Banna, and Martin Mubanga in El Banna v. Bush.[3] The three were captured in Africa, held first in CIA custody, then transported to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[4]

Before entering private practice, Mickum worked as a trial attorney for the Federal Trade Commission.[2] [5] He also worked as a special assistant U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice and as the senior investigative counsel for the Senate Special Committee on Investigations.[6]

When the United States Supreme Court forced the Department of Defense to provide an opportunity for captives to learn why they were being held, they designed administrative procedures called "Combatant Status Review Tribunals".The Guardian quoted Mickum's advice to his clients that they decline to participate:[7]

On January 12, 2005, The Guardian published an article by Mickum, where he described one of his clients, Bisher Al Rawi, being punished for trying to forward the names of other Guantanamo captives who wanted habeas corpus petitions submitted on their behalf.[8] The lawyers who were prepared to submit habeas corpus petitions could only do so when they were approached by a detainee's "next friend".

In February 2008 Mickum was one of the first two lawyers to see Abu Zubaydah, one of the three captives the CIA acknowledges waterboarding, when he was in one of their black sites."[9] [10] [11] All the attorneys who are allowed to meet with the Guantanamo captives had to agree not to disclose "secret" information they learn from their clients.[12] [13] However the CIA argued this agreement wasn't sufficient for those attorneys who wanted to meet with their former clients, because the clients could reveal information that was "top secret". Mickum said: "The hypocrisy that we cannot discuss Zubaydah's treatment, but the government can admit to waterboarding him and claim that it is legal is rather astounding."

On March 30, 2009 The Guardian published an article by Mickum, entitled "The truth about Abu Zubaydah: The Bush administration's false claim that my client was a top al-Qaida official has led to his imprisonment and torture."[14] Mickum's text was submitted to the CIA, who required multiple redactions. Mickum wrote:

Notes and References

  1. News: Torturing Decocracy . . George Brent Mickum IV . https://web.archive.org/web/20090312004618/http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torturingdemocracy/interviews/george_mickum.html . 2009-03-12 . Brent Mickum, who has practiced law for 23 years, is a partner with Hollingsworth LLP in Washington, D.C. . dead.
  2. News: George Brent Mickum . . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606055701/http://pview.findlaw.com/view/3834854_1 . 2011-06-06 . dead.
  3. News: Judge Questions Sweep of Bush's War on Terrorism . A04 . . Carol D. Leonnig . Carol D. Leonnig . 2004-12-02 . 2008-06-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044812/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26448-2004Dec1?language=printer . 2016-03-04 . dead.
  4. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006 . OARDEC . OARDEC . . 2006-05-15 . 2007-09-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184034/http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf . September 30, 2007 .
  5. News: An Interview with Brent Mickum . . 2005-03-31 . 2009-03-07 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20120214042624/http://talk.islamicnetwork.com/showthread.php?t=3084 . February 14, 2012 .
  6. News: George Brent Mickum IV: Attorney, Spriggs & Hollingsworth . . 2007-11-19 . 2009-03-07 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20090312004618/http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torturingdemocracy/interviews/george_mickum.html . March 12, 2009.
  7. News: 'Backdoor' trials for Britons in Guantánamo: Britons face trials. The Guardian. Vikram Dodd. 2004-09-28. 2009-03-07.
  8. News: Tortured, humiliated and crying out for some justice: Four Guantánamo Britons are coming home. Don't forget those left behind. The Guardian. Brent Mickum. 2005-01-12. 2009-03-07.
  9. News: After years, captive sees lawyer . . Carol Rosenberg . Carol Rosenberg . 2008-02-27 . 2008-06-28 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20080518032929/http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/434963.html . May 18, 2008.
  10. News: George Brent Mickum IV . . 2008-06-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064311/http://pview.findlaw.com/view/3834854_1?noconfirm=0&channel=LP . 2011-06-06 .
  11. News: Terror detainee falsely held, lawyers say. CNN. Carol Cratty. Carol Cratty. 2008-03-17. 2008-06-29.
  12. News: U.S. Seeks To Keep Detainee From Lawyer . . 2006-11-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604184126/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/04/national/main2153262.shtml . 2011-06-04 . A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney, the Bush administration argues, because he could reveal the agency's closely guarded interrogation techniques. . dead.
  13. News: U.S. fights detainee access to attorney . . 2006-11-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121026111315/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-04-terrorism-detainees_x.htm . 2012-10-26 . dead.
  14. News: The truth about Abu Zubaydah: The Bush administration's false claim that my client was a top al-Qaida official has led to his imprisonment and torture . . George Brent Mickum IV . 2009-03-30 . 2009-04-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090401121627/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/mar/30/guantanamo-abu-zubaydah-torture . dead.

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