George Brent Mickum IV

George Brent Mickum IV is an American lawyer.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26448-2004Dec1?language=printer
title=Judge Questions Sweep of Bush's War on Terrorism
page=A04
publisher=Washington Post
author=Carol D. Leonnig
date=2004-12-02
accessdate=2008-06-29
quote=To detain anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world, indefinitely, under any rules they devise, that just can't be -- must not be -- the law of the land.] Mickum represented three British residents, Bisher Al Rawi, Jamil El Banna, and Martin Mubanga in El Banna v. Bush. The three were captured in Africa, held first in CIA custody, then transported to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29]

More recently Mickum was one of the first two lawyers to see Abu Zubaydah, one of the three captives the CIA acknowledges waterboarding, when he was in one of their "black sites.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/434963.html
title=After years, captive sees lawyer
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=2008-02-27
accessdate=2008-06-28
quote='The hypocrisy that we cannot discuss Zubaydah's treatment, but the government can admit to waterboarding him and claim that it is legal is rather astounding," said Mickum on Tuesday. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miamiherald.com%2F519%2Fstory%2F434963.html&date=2008-06-28 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://pview.findlaw.com/view/3834854_1?noconfirm=0&channel=LP
title=George Brent Mickum IV
publisher=Spriggs & Hollingsworth
accessdate=2008-06-28
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/17/zubaydah/
title=Terror detainee falsely held, lawyers say
publisher=CNN
author=Carol Cratty
date=2008-03-17
accessdate=2008-06-29
quote=]

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