Office of the Department of Defense General Counsel

The United States Office of the Department of Defense General Counsel was created in 1953.
The General Counsel is the most senior lawyer in the United States Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...

Appointees

dates	name	notes
-2008	William J. Haynes, II William J. Haynes, II William James "Jim" Haynes II is an American lawyer and former General Counsel of the Department of Defense during President George W. Bush's administration. Haynes resigned as General Counsel effective March 2008...	Haynes was characterized as playing an important role in forming and implementing the Bush Presidency's policies on how to detain, interrogate and prosecute captives apprehended during the "War on Terror War on Terror The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries... ". In March 2009 Baltasar Garzón Baltasar Garzón Baltasar Garzón Real is a Spanish jurist who served on Spain's central criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional. He was the examining magistrate of the Juzgado Central de Instrucción No... , a Spanish judge who has considered international war crimes charges against other high-profile figures, considered whether to allow charges to be laid against Haynes and five other former officials of the George W. Bush Presidency.
2009-	Jeh Johnson Jeh Johnson Jeh Charles Johnson is an American civil and criminal trial lawyer, currently serving as General Counsel of the Department of Defense. Johnson is a graduate of Morehouse College and Columbia Law School, and is grandson of noted sociologist and Fisk University president Dr. Charles S...	Tasked to help draft a new policy on gays in the military. Tried to prevent attorneys from visiting clients who were Guantanamo captives.

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