mudvillegazette.com - 5/1/2009
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Now that it's official, best of luck to Phil Carter : The Obama administration has chosen a lawyer and Iraq War veteran who has denounced U.S. detention policy to direct detainee affairs at the Department of Defense.
A former Army captain, he also blogged on national security issues at a ...
miamiherald.com - 5/1/2009
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The Obama administration has chosen a lawyer and
Iraq War veteran who has denounced U.S. detention policy...
to direct detainee affairs at the Department of Defense. Until starting at the Pentagon this week, Phillip E. Carter, 33, was an associate at ...
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Now that its official, best of luck to Phil Carter:The Obama administration has chosen a lawyer and Iraq War veteran who has denounced U.S. detention policy to direct detainee affairs at the Department of Defense. A former Army captain, he also blogged on national security issues at a Washington Post website, Intel Dump.Long before he moved to the WaPo Phil was one of the earliest milbloggers, and one of the first in the MilBlogs Ring. Heres what his new job... read ...
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