Peter Murphy (lawyer)

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Peter Murphy is an American lawyer, and officer in the United States Marine Corps.[1]

Murphy is notable for his participation in discusssions, in December of 2002, of reports that interrogators from the Joint Task Force 160 and Joint Task Force 170 were using controversial interrogation techniques on the captives held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[2]

Murphy was the Counsel to the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps's when Alberto J. Mora, the Department of the Navy's General Counsel convened several meetings of the Navy's most senior lawyers after David Brant, the Director of the NCIS, drew Mora's attention to use of the questionable interrogation techniques by the Navy's tenants at Guantanamo.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named USNAlbertoJMora2004-07=07
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Alberto J. Mora (2004-07-07). Memorandum from Navy General Counsel Alberto J. Mora to Navy Inspector General. United States Navy. Archived from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved on 2007-05-05.
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