Alberto Mora (lawyer)

From Citizendium
Revision as of 01:33, 5 February 2024 by George Swan (talk | contribs) (Fix refs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article may be deleted soon.
To oppose or discuss a nomination, please go to CZ:Proposed for deletion and follow the instructions.

For the monthly nomination lists, see
Category:Articles for deletion.


This article is developing and not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
This editable Main Article is under development and subject to a disclaimer.
Alberto Mora
Other names Alberto J. Mora
Alberto Mora.jpg
Born 1952-04-11
Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation former General Counsel of the Navy
Known for took a stand opposing the use of torture at Guantanamo

Alberto Mora was an American lawyer and public official.

In early 2002 he was General Counsel of the Navy when David Grant, then the Director of the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) informed Mora that interrogators were torturing individuals held in the newly created Guantanamo Bay detention camps.[1]

In 2006 Mora was chosen by the John F. Kennedy Library as a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Recipient, for his efforts to prevent the use of torture.[2]

Rough work

[2]

[1]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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?'
  2. 2.0 2.1 Award Recipients: Alberto Mora, 2006. John F. Kennedy Library (2006). Retrieved on May 8, 2007. “Mora, whose civilian position accorded him a rank equal to that of a four-star general, soon came to learn that the cruel and abusive practices of United States military interrogators at Guantanamo were the result of significant policy shifts at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Over the next three years, Mora waged a campaign inside the Bush Administration to prevent military and civilian leaders from codifying any policy that might implicitly or explicitly sanction the mistreatment of Guantanamo detainees as part of the war on terror.”
  3. 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.”
  4. 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.”
  5. David Brant. Mora Put His Career on the Line, Witness to Guantanamo, 2011-03-11. Retrieved on 2020-12-28. “Brant reported questionable interrogation techniques to Alberto Mora, then General Counsel of the Navy.”
  6. 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.”
  7. 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.
  8. Jane Mayer. The Memo: How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted., The New Yorker, 2006-02-27.