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George Brent Mickum IV is an American lawyer with the Washington DC law firm Terrapin Law Group. He married Penelope Anne Griffin in October 1984, and the couple has been married ever since. Mickum has two children: Laura Mickum McNamara, a University of Richmond graduate, and Drew Griffin Mickum, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student.〔 〕〔 〕 Mickum represented three British residents, Bisher Al Rawi, Jamil El Banna, and Martin Mubanga in ''El Banna v. Bush.''〔 〕 The three were captured in Africa, held first in CIA custody, then transported to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.〔 〕 Before entering private practice, Mickum worked as a trial attorney for the Federal Trade Commission.〔〔 (mirror ) 〕 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.〔 (mirror ) 〕 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:〔 〕 : 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.〔 〕 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."〔 (mirror ) 〕〔 〕〔 〕 All the attorneyd who are allowed to meet with the Guantanamo captives had to agree not to disclose "secret" information they learn from their clients.〔 〕〔 〕 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."〔 〕 Mickum's text was submitted to the CIA, who required multiple redactions. Mickum wrote: ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Brent Mickum IV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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