Military Career
Abraham was commissioned as an officer in the Intelligence Corps in 1981. He served as an intelligence officer during periods of both reserve and active duty, including mobilization in 1990 (“Operation Desert Storm”) and twice again following the 9/11 attacks. The Boston Globe noted he had worked in intelligence. As of June 23, 2007, he is a Lieutenant Colonel.
Following the United States Supreme Court decision in Rasul v. Bush (2004), that detainees had the right to habeas corpus and an impartial review to challenge their detention, the Department of Defense set up a system to review the status of all detainees at Guantanamo.
Abraham served with the resulting Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants (OARDEC) from September 2004 through March 2005, both in fact gathering and as a panel member. The Combatant Status Review Tribunals, created to assess the individual detention of each of the 558 captives then present at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, lasted from August 2004 through January 2005. The confirmation of the panels' results, by then Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England, was finished in March 2005.
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