Harvey Rishikof is an

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lawyer who was the

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for the

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in 2017 and early 2018. Rishikof was the previous chair of the

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's Standing Committee on Law and National Security. In 2020 he was a visiting professor at

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. His past positions include: * dean of the National War College; * senior policy advisor to the Director of National Counterintelligence, ODNI; * legal counsel for the deputy director of the

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; * dean of

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Convening authority, Guantanamo

Rishikof and his deputy,

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Gary Brown were dismissed early in 2018. A former prosecutor,

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, made a comparison between the

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and a sports team firing its coach.

Think about that for a moment. If a professional football team was on its seventh head coach and sixth quarterback in less than a dozen years, that team would almost certainly be a loser.

Richikof and Brown had been negotiating with the suspects' lawyers, offering to take the death penalty off the table, if they agreed to plead guilty, and accept a life sentence.

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