Interviews: Other Voices

Albert Shimkus
Hospital Commanding Officer

Alberto Mora
Navy General Counsel

Alberto Mora led efforts in the Department of Defense to oppose Bush administration interrogation tactics in Guantanamo.

Bev Hicks
Mother of David Hicks

Brandon Neely
Prison Guard

In January 2010, Brandon Neely flew to the United Kingdom to meet with former detainees with whom he had reconnected via Facebook.

Candace Gorman
Habeas Attorney

Candace Gorman argued and won a 2004 unanimous decision regarding the Statute of Limitations before the United States Supreme Court.

Capt. Bob Buehn
Navy Captain (ret.)

Carol Rosenberg
Journalist

Christopher Arendt
Prison Guard

After finishing his tour, Christopher Arendt moved to Portland and organized the local chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Clive Stafford Smith
Founder, Reprieve

Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve (a human rights non-profit) and has spent 25 years working on civil rights, death penalty and Guantanamo habeas cases.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff

Former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson has publicly criticized the Iraq War and the global politics surrounding it.

Col. Morris Davis
Chief Prosecutor

Col. Morris Davis was appointed to serve as the third Chief Prosecutor in the Guantanamo military commissions in September 2005.

Daniel Lakemacher
Medical Technician

In 2009, Daniel Lakemacher filed a request to be discharged from the United States Navy as a conscientious objector, but was forced to work for another 131 days.

David Brant
NCIS Director

David Brant was the Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service for almost 30 years.

Erwin Chemerinsky
Habeas Attorney

Erwin Chemerinsky has written over 200 law review articles, and writes a regular column on the Supreme Court for California Lawyer, L.A. Daily Journal and Time Magazine.

Estela Lebron
Mother of Jose Padilla

Estela Lebron is the mother of Jose Padilla, an American citizen detained in the Naval brig in South Carolina for nearly four years.

Felice Bezri
Interpreter

Frank Lindh
Father of John Walker Lindh

Frank Lindh is the father of John Walker Lindh, a 20 year-old American citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2001.

Gitanjali Gutierrez
Habeas Attorney

James Yee
Military Chaplain

After being officially recognized for outstanding performance as a US Army Muslim Chaplain, James Yee was arrested and imprisoned in a Naval brig for 76 days.

Jennifer Bryson
Interrogator

Jim Clemente
FBI Criminal Profiler

While acting as a consultant in Guantanamo, Jim Clemente said the interrogation tactics being used violated the US Torture Statute.

Jonathan Hafetz
Habeas Attorney

Jonathan Hafetz has helped coordinate the Guantanamo detainee habeas corpus litigation since its earliest stages and has testified before Congress on detainee rights.

Kent Svendsen
Military Chaplain

Kent Svendsen served as chaplain for the military police battalion in Guantanamo for a year, and is now a a United Methodist Minister and Evangelist in Illinois.

Khalid Al-Odah
Father of detainee

Khalid Al-Odah is the father of Fawzi Al-Odah, and the founder of the Kuwaiti Family Committee, an organization that advocates for the just treatment of detainees.

Kristine Huskey
Habeas Attorney

Kristine Huskey began representing Guantanamo detainees in 2002, and famously represented Canadian citizen Omar Khadr in Rasul v. Bush in 2004.

Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld
Prosecutor

In September 2008, while acting as the lead prosecutor in the case against Mohammed Jawad (a minor at the time of arrest), Vandeveld resigned for ethical reasons.

Lt. Col. David Frakt
JAG Attorney

As an attorney with the US Air Force Reserve JAG Corps, Lt. Col. David Frakt represented Guantanamo detainees facing trial by military tribunal.

Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham
Military Officer

Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham was the first officer to publicly criticize the Combatant Status Review Tribunals, and his affidavit was key in several U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley
JAG Attorney

Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley is a United States Air Force Attorney who vigorously represented former detainee, Binyam Mohamed, a former British resident.

Maha Habib
Wife of Mamdouh Habib

Marion (Spike) Bowman
FBI Official

Marion (Spike) Bowman is the former Senior Counsel to the FBI and former Chief of Litigator for the U.S. Navy.

Mark Denbeaux
Habeas Attorney

Mark Denbeaux is a professor at Seton Hall Law School, and has served as director and then chair of the board of the New York City Legal Services Corporation.

Matt Diaz
Staff Judge Advocate

Michael Gelles
NCIS Psychologist

As Chief Psychologist for NCIS, Dr. Michael Gelles notably uncovered the unauthorized use of abusive interrogation techniques of detainees.

Michael Ratner
President, Center for Constitutional Rights

Michael Ratner is an attorney and the President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit human rights litigation organization based in New York.

Rushan Abbas
Uyghur Interpreter

Rushan Abbas’ participation in a Uyghur language service on Radio Free Asia led to her being hired to work at Guantanamo as an interpreter for the Uyghur detainees.

Sean Baker
Prison Guard

Stephen Kenny
Habeas Attorney

Stephen Xenakis M.D.
Brigadier General (Ret)

Terry Hicks
Father of David Hicks

Terry Holdbrooks
Prison Guard

Terry Holdbrooks served as a prison guard at Guantanamo from June 2003 until July 2004, converting to Islam during this time.

Tom Wilner
Habeas Attorney

Tom Wilner has been lead counsel in a number of major cases, and represented detainees before the US Supreme Court in various cases in 2002, 2004 and 2008.