Stephen Abraham - A Second OARDEC Officer Comes Forward

A Second OARDEC Officer Comes Forward

On October 5, 2007 the lawyers for Adel Hassan Hamad, whose case was consolidated under Boumediene v. Bush, filed an affidavit from a second officer who had served with OARDEC. Like Abraham, this second officer, whose name was redacted from the Supreme Court documents, was also a reservist and an attorney in civilian life. He wrote: "training was minimal" -and- ``"the process was not well defined". Abraham was allowed to sit on only one Tribunal. The second officer sat on 49 Tribunals.

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