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==Post law-enforcement career== | |||
After he left NCIS Brant worked as a security expert for the accounting firms [[Deloitte Consulting]] and [[BDO Global|BDO]].<ref name=NleomfInsider9-6/> While at those firms he was a dedicated fund-raiser for the [[National Law Officers Memorial Fund]]. | |||
He would eventually leave consulting for accountants to become the executive director of the [[National Law Enforcement Museum]].<ref name=NleomfInsider9-6/><ref name=tribstar2019-10-14/> | |||
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Revision as of 22:57, 4 February 2024
| David Brant | |
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| Occupation | law enforcement official |
| Known for | Served as the director of NCIS from 1997 to 2005 |
David Brant joined NCIS in 1997, and served as its director from 1997 to 2005.[1][2]
Brant spent thirty years working in law enforcement, 28 of them at the NCIS, the last 8 years as its director.[1]
Senator John Warner, who was himself a former Secretary of the Navy, read a tribute to Brant into the Senate record, when Brant retired.[1]
The NCIS and the use of "extended interrogation" techniques at Guantanamo
A twenty page statement issued on July 7 2004 describes a series of high-level meetings among the United States Navy's most senior lawyers, that were triggered by reports, from Brant, that the captives being held in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base were being subjected to questionable interrogation techniques.[3]
Mora's statement contained several quotations from Brant, about Brant's reluctance for the NCIS to be involved with the questionable interrogation techniques:[3]
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Post law-enforcement career
After he left NCIS Brant worked as a security expert for the accounting firms Deloitte Consulting and BDO.[4] While at those firms he was a dedicated fund-raiser for the National Law Officers Memorial Fund.
He would eventually leave consulting for accountants to become the executive director of the National Law Enforcement Museum.[4][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Warner. TRIBUTE TO DAVID L. BRANT, United States Senate, 2005-12-14. Retrieved on 2020-12-28. “Mr. President, I take this opportunity to recognize a dedicated law enforcement official at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, NCIS, David L. Brant, who is retiring after 28 years of service to the United States.”
- ↑ Alberto Mora. The First Thomas J. Romig Lecture in Principled Legal Practice, The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School. Retrieved on 2024-02-04. “In November of 2002, then-NCIS director David Brant took me aside after a meeting on an unrelated issue and said to me, in a low voice: 'We [meaning NCIS] are hearing rumors that detainees are being abused in Guantanamo. Do you want to hear more?'”
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Welcome New Staff Members!, Museum Insider. Retrieved on 2020-12-28. “He served as the Director of NCIS for his last 8 years with the agency and was influential in creating the CBS show, NCIS, with Mark Harmon. He was a director with Deloitte Consulting for six years. Just prior to joining the Memorial Fund, he served as the Managing Director of BDO’s Federal Practice.”
- ↑ Lisa Trigg. Beware 'Us vs. Them' thinking, says former NCIS chief: Brant, who earned master's at ISU, led Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Tribune-Star, 2019-10-14. Retrieved on 2020-12-28. “He also worked for the National Law Officers Memorial Fund in Washington, D.C., and the National Law Enforcement Museum.”
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