Critic of Bush Detentions Joins Pentagon to Oversee and Shape Detainee Policy

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May 04, 2009

Phillip Carter is an Iraq War veteran, a past contributor to publications such as Slate and the New York Times, a former Washington Post blogger, and, until last month, a government contracts associate at McKenna Long & Aldridge. Now, he’s onto his next venture, serving in the Barack Obama administration as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs.

In his new role, Carter is responsible for overseeing and shaping detention policies. The position was created by President George W. Bush.

Carter has long been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s detainee policies, and served as the Obama campaign's national veterans director.

Stating that interrogation techniques used on Khalid Sheik Mohammed qualified as torture, in a 2004 article for Slate, Carter wrote, “Setting aside for a moment all the moral, political, and practical problems of such tactics…as a purely legal matter, the use of torture during interrogation has so many negative consequences that it may ultimately allow some accused terrorists to win acquittals merely because it will lead to suppressed evidence of their factual guilt.”


article: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/05/mckenna-long-associate-and-bush-critic-joins-dod.html

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