Col. Morris Davis   Chief Prosecutor

Morris Davis

Clips:

  • Suicides

    The three 2006 deaths at Guantanamo were suicides, not homicides.

    WATCH (length: 1:13)

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  • Big Brains

    Civilian authorities should not have led Military Commissions at Guantanamo.

    WATCH (length: 1:25)

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  • Lose to Win

    Better to be convicted of a war crime than wait for trial indefinitely at Guantanamo.

    WATCH (length: :56)

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Col. Morris Davis bio

Col. Morris Davis is a United States Air Force officer and lawyer. He entered active duty in 1983. He was appointed to serve as the third Chief Prosecutor in the Guantanamo military commissions in September 2005. He resigned from the position in October 2007. Davis was named the head of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division of the Congressional Research in December 2008. He was fired a year later, after the publication of a controversial op-ed he wrote in the Wall Street Journal.

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