Phil Carter

Phillip Carter is an attorney and writer in New York City, [http://www.mckennalong.com/attorney-profile-781.html] where he practices government contracts and national security law with [http://www.mckennalong.com McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP] . He has written amicus briefs for the landmark cases FAIR vs. Rumsfeld and Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld. Phil is a native of Southern California who attended UCLA for college and law school. [http://magazine.ucla.edu/depts/style/phillip-carter/]

He wrote the " [http://blog.washingtonpost.com/inteldump Intel Dump] " blog for the Washington Post, [http://blog.washingtonpost.com/inteldump/2008/04/about_phillip_carter.html] and also edited the Convictions legal blog for Slate magazine. Phil's articles have appeared in many other publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Tribune. In 2006, he won an award (with Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon) for a [http://www.slate.com/id/2119122/ feature] on torture that appeared in Slate.

Phil served on active and reserve duty for nine years in the U.S. Army as a military police and civil affairs officer. From October 2005 to September 2006, he was an embedded adviser with the Iraqi police in Baqubah, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province. His team's work was [http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/colloquium/papers/Phil%20Carter%20WSJ%20Legal%20Article%2013Jun06.doc profiled] by the Wall Street Journal in a June 13, 2006, front-page story, and by NPR as well.

He has consulted on operational and legal issues for state and local anti-terrorism task forces, and he has lectured about law and terrorism at UCLA.

Phil was a founding member of [http://www.iava.org Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America] , and he also serves as a principal of the [http://www.trumanproject.org Truman National Security Project] .

In June 2008, Phil took a leave of absence to join the Barack Obama campaign as its national veterans director.