Testimonies of Defense Lawyers

Clockwise around the table fron left, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, Douglas Cox, Jennifer Ching,
Baher Azmy, Marc Falkoff, Sarah Havens, Scott Sullivan, Robert Knowles, Neha Singh Gohil
(Photo: Jeff Riedel/New York Magazine)

In the summer of 2004, after the Supreme Court ruled that Guantánamo detainees could challenge their confinement in U.S. courts, a loose confederation of lawyers was formed to represent them pro bono (see Stacy Sullivan, "The Minutes of the Guantánamo Bay Bar Association", New York Magazine, June 26, 2006). Led by the New York Center for Constitutional Rights, they called themselves The Guantánamo Bay Bar Association. The members of this association (as of 10/06/06) can be found in the website of the October 6, 2006 National Guantanamo Teach-In organized by the Seton Hall University School of Law. Some of these lawyers have given testimony about prisoner abuse in Guantánamo. And so have other legal teams representing the prisoners. To read these testimonies, please scroll down to their names below. For an indication of what lawyers are representing what prisoners, click here.

MUNEER AHMAD

• Affidavit on Omar Khadr, February 8, 2005  |  Exhibits A - E  | F - K  | L ( Parts I - III)  |  L (Parts IV - VI) - M
  

BAHER AZMY

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, January 9, 2006
• Washington Post, December 5, 2007

 EMMET BONDURANT

• Journal Star, April 8, 2010

 ANGELA CAMPBELL

• Nebraska Messenger, January/February, 2007
• Talking Dog Blog Interview, October 25, 2007
  

CHARLES CARPENTER

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, October 14, 2007
  

JOHN A. CHANDLER

• Atlanta Journal Constitution, September 28, 2008
  

JENNIFER CHING

• Declaration, September 28, 2005

GEORGE CLARKE

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, March 28, 2009

JERRY COHEN

• The Miami Herald, January 6, 2011

JOSHUA COLANGELO-BRYAN

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, January 25, 2006
  

JAMES G. CONNELL, III

• Mr. al Baluchi's motion to end presumptive classification, April 19, 2012

DAVID CYNAMON

• Miami Herald, January 16, 2008
  

GEORGE DALY

• Charlotte Observer, February 3, 2008
• Washington Post, August 29, 2008
  

COL. STEVE DAVID

• Associated Press, April 13, 2008
  

JOSHUA DENBEAUX

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, April 5, 2006

• Reply to Memorandum of Law in Further Support of Petitioner's Torture Motions, January 4, 2008
  
• Washington Post, April 22, 2008
  

JOSHUA DRATEL

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, May 10, 2005

DENNIS EDNEY

• Toronto Star, May 25, 2007
• Edmonton Sun, June 22, 2007
  

BUZ EISENBERG

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, November 20, 2008
  

DAVID ENGELHARDT

• Washington Post, August 29, 2008
  

MARC FALKOFF

• Naseeb Vibes Interview, February 15, 2005
• Harper's Magazine, June 29, 2006
  
• Talking Dog Blog Interview, March 30, 2007
• Motion to compel access to medical records, August 15, 2008
• Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2012
  

MAJ. TOM FLEENER

• Agence France Presse, March 2, 2006
  
• GQ Magazine, August 2007
  

MAJ. DAVID FRAKT

• Jurist, June 4, 2008
• Human Rights Watch, June 2008
• Miami Herald, October 27, 2008
  

ERIC FREEDMAN

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, November 6, 2006
  

ABDUL GHAPPOUR

• Reuters, February 25, 2009

LEONARD C. GOODMAN

• Statement by Mr. Goodman, July 10, 2010
  

H. CANDACE GORMAN

• Huffington Post, November 20, 2006
  

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, January 16, 2007
• In These Times, January 20, 2007
• More Testimony...
  

GITA GUTIÉRREZ

• Declaration of Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, Lawyer for Mohammed al Qahtani
• Majid Khan Declaration, December 6, 2007
• Associated Press, January 12, 2009
• Testimony to Witness to Guantanamo, n/d
  

CLARA GUTTERIDGE

• The Standard (Nairobi), October 29, 2008

JONATHAN HAFETZ

• Declaration, September 16, 2005
  

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, April 16, 2006
  

SARAH HAVENS

• Miami Herald, January 8, 2009

SUSAN HU

• Susan's Journal

GAILLARD T. HUNT

• Cageprisoners Press Release, June 27, 2007
• Talking Dog Blog Interview, June 28, 2007
  

MAJ. JON JACKSON

• Canadian Press, May 22, 2008
• Washington Post, October 15, 2008
  

RAMZI KASSEM

• Associated Press, October 24, 2008
• Associated Press, March 18, 2009
• Traverse in Support of Ahmed Zuhair's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, December 31, 2008
• Talking Dog Blog Interview, May 18, 2009
• The Washington Post, December 9, 2011
• Guantanamo Testimonials Project Interview, January 11, 2013
• RT, May 21, 2013
• Al Jazeera, June 6, 2013
  

NEAL KATYAL

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, October 6, 2006
  

ZACHARY KATZNELSON

• Declaration re Shaker Aamer, September 19, 2006
• Inter Press Service, December 14, 2006
  
• This is Local London, March 31, 2007
• More Testimony
  

PARDISS KEBRIAEI

• Associated Press, August 31, 2009

STEPHEN KENNY

• The Age, January 1, 2008
  

ROBERT KIRSCH

• Echourouk Online, July 29, 2007

LT. WILLIAM KUEBLER

• GQ Magazine, August 2007
• Canada.com, August 13, 2007
• Toronto Star, February 4, 2008

CDR. SUZANNE LACHELIER

• Jurist, October 18, 2008
  

JOE MARGULIES

• Reuters, January 30, 2005
  
• Chicago Public Radio, March 10, 2006
• Washington Post, February 23, 2008
• More Testimony…
  

EMI MC LEAN

• Washington Post, April 22, 2008
  

GEORGE BRENT MICKUM

• Guardian, January 12, 2005
  
• Cageprisoners Interview, March 31, 2005
  
• Independent, March 16, 2006
• More Testimony…

LCDR. BRIAN MIZER

• Hamdan Defense Motion, April 4, 2008  |  Attachments
• Reply in Support of the Hamdan Defense Motion, April 18, 2008
• Associated Press, June 17, 2008
• More Testimony…
  

MICHAEL MONE

• Statement, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 6, 2008
  
• Human Rights Watch, June 2008
  

ERIC MONTALVO

• Reuters, May 26, 2009

MICHAEL MORI

• Enough Rope Interview, August 14, 2006
  

STEPHEN OLESKEY

• Letter to Terry Henry and Andrew Warden, U.S. Justice Department, April 2007
  
• New York TImes, April 8, 2007
• Congressional Testimony, July 26, 2007
• More Testimony…

JASON PINNEY

• Human Rights Watch, June 2008 

MAJ. DEREK A. POTEET

• Statement, March 27, 2013
  

ANDREA PRASOW

• Hamdan Declaration, January 2, 2008

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, May 24, 2007
  

• Declaration, September 10, 2010
  

ANANT RAUT

• Washington Post, April 22, 2008
  

MARTHA RAYNER

• News Yemen, May 11, 2007
• Talking Dog Blog Interview, November 12, 2007
  

DAVID REMES

• Yemen Times, July 17, 2008
• Yemen Post, July 21, 2008
• Washington Post, December 20, 2008
• More Testimony…
  

LT. COL. SHARON SHAEFFER

• The Nation, December 26, 2005

HINA SHAMSI

• Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus on Behalf of Mohammed Jawad, January 13, 2009
  

CLIVE STAFFORD-SMITH

• Guardian, June 14, 2005
• Aljazeera.net, October 28, 2005
• Press Gazette, September 10, 2007
• More Testimony…
  

ALAN SUSSMAN

• Declaration, September 16, 2005
  

CHARLES SWIFT

• Cageprisoners Interview, December 14, 2004
  

JULIA TARVER

• Declaration, September 15, 2005
  

• Democracy Now! October 21, 2005

STEPHEN TRUITT

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, October 14, 2007
• Letter to Secretary Gates, January 26, 2009

• Petition of Habeas Corpus for Ali (Hassan Anvar) at the Supreme Court (Fragment), February 12, 2007

LT. COL. COLBY VOKEY

• National Public Radio, October 30, 2007  |  (Audio)
• Union Tribune, August 18, 2008
• Associated Press, December 18, 2008

STEVEN T. WAX

• From the Traverse of Mr. Janko, March 6, 2009

SABIN WILLET

• Declaration on Camp 6, January 20, 2007  |   (Supplement, January 22, 2007)
  
• Sunday Telegraph, January 28, 2007
• Boston Globe, March 11, 2007
• More Testimony…
  

THOMAS WILNER

• Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2006
• Talking Dog Blog Interview, April 16, 2006
  

RICK WILSON

• Talking Dog Blog Interview, March 7, 2006
  

BARRY WINGARD

• Washington Post, July 1, 2009

GROUP TESTIMONIES

HIGH VALUE DETAINEE COUNSEL (RUIZ, LACHELIER, ACUFF, THOMAS, REYES, JACKSON, SCHWARTZ, BORMAN, CONNELL)

• Letter regarding attorney-client privilege, November 1, 2011

ATTORNEYS FOR MESSRS. AAMER, BA AWDAH, DIYAB, ISMAEL, AL KANDARI, AND MUQBEL

• McClatchy, April 26, 2013