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Brian L. Mizer is a United States Navy JAG officer. He is from the State of Nebraska. He attended Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, for his undergraduate degree and Case Western Reserve University for his Juris Doctor. He is notable for serving as one of the chief defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver of Osama bin Laden, when he faced charges before a Guantánamo military commission. In November 2008 The New Republic quoted Mizer explaining why the use of torture would complicate the prosecution of other suspects.

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  • Brian L. Mizer is a United States Navy JAG officer. He is from the State of Nebraska. He attended Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, for his undergraduate degree and Case Western Reserve University for his Juris Doctor. He is notable for serving as one of the chief defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver of Osama bin Laden, when he faced charges before a Guantánamo military commission. In November 2008 The New Republic quoted Mizer explaining why the use of torture would complicate the prosecution of other suspects. (en)
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  • Brian L. Mizer is a United States Navy JAG officer. He is from the State of Nebraska. He attended Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, for his undergraduate degree and Case Western Reserve University for his Juris Doctor. He is notable for serving as one of the chief defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver of Osama bin Laden, when he faced charges before a Guantánamo military commission. On 23 April 2008 attorneys working on behalf of Salim Ahmed Hamdan requested permission to meet with Abdulmalik Mohammed and Mustafa al-Hawsawi.Hamdan's attorneys had previously requested permission to get the "high-value detainees" to answer written questions, which would confirm whether Hamdan played a role in al Qaeda, and, if so, if it had been a peripheral one.Abdulmalik Mohammed and Mustafa al-Hawsawi declined to answer the questions, because they said they had no way to know that the questions purporting to be from Hamdan's attorneys was not a ruse.Andrea J. Prasow requested permission for Lieutenant Commander Brian Mizer to meet in person with the two men to try to assure them that the questions were not a ruse, and would not be shared with their interrogators. Hamdan was convicted in August 2008.His Presiding Officer's decision that he should be credited with the time he had already served, left him with a scheduled release date of December 31, 2008—just over four months later. Chief Prosecutor Lawrence Morris filed an appeal, asserting that Presiding Officers didn't have the authority to credit time served.The Wall Street Journal quoted Mizer's response: "I really am at a loss for words. The government, having stacked the deck, is now complaining about the hand it was dealt." In November 2008 The New Republic quoted Mizer explaining why the use of torture would complicate the prosecution of other suspects. Mizer told reporters that he was surprised to learn that Hamdan had been transferred to Yemen on 1 December 2008, calling it "welcome news". In the fall of 2008 chief prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis resigned after a conflict of authority with Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann.Davis felt that Hartmann had inappropriately usurped his own role in designating which captives should face charges, when Hartmann's role as Legal Advisor to the Convening Authority for the Guantánamo Military Commissions required neutrality. Davis became a critic of the operation of the Military Commission system, and on December 8, 2008, The New York Times reported that Mizer planned to call upon Davis to testify on in Hamdan's case. In early January 2009 the Office of Military Commissions dismissed all charges against all the suspects, with plans to re-initiate those charges later.Commentators described the state of the cases against the captives as "chaotic". According to , reporting in The Washington Post, Mizer greeted the news with disbelief, stating: "This is military justice 101." When President Barack Obama ordered the closure of Guantánamo base on January 22, 2009 Mizer commented: (en)
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