Richard O'Meara

Richard O'Meara is a retired Brigadier General in the United States Army. [http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/PDF/detainees/Military_Leaders_Letter_President_Bush_FINAL.pdf Open Letter to President Bush] , "Human Rights First", September 9 2004]

O'Meara is a combat veteran of the War in Vietnam. Following his Vietnam service he earned a law degree and joined the Judge Advocate Corp. He retired from the United States Army Reserves in 2002, after 36 years of service. Following his retirement he took up teaching posts at the [http://dga.rutgers.edu Division of Global Affairs] , Rutgers University-Newark, Kean University and Monmouth University, where he teaches courses in Security Studies, Human Rights and History. In July 2006, General O'Meara spoke about genocide and torture at the New Jersey Governor's School of Public Issues and the Future of New Jersey.

[http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~gdga/JGCG/archive/Winter07/OMEARA.pdf Maritime Piracy in the 21st Century: A Short Course for U.S. Policy Makers] (Winter 2007, [http://www.jgcg.org Journal of Global Change and Governance] )

Open letter to President Bush of September 7, 2004

On September 7 2004 O'Meara and seven other retired officers wrote an open letter to President Bush expressing their concern over the number of allegations of abuse of prisoners in U.S. military custody. [http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/PDF/detainees/Military_Leaders_Letter_President_Bush_FINAL.pdf Open letter to President Bush ] ,"Human Rights First", September 7 2004] In it they wrote::"We urge you to commit – immediately and publicly – to support the creation of a comprehensive, independent commission to investigate and report on the truth about all of these allegations, and to chart a course for how practices that violate the law should be addressed."

ee also

*James Cullen
*John L. Fugh
*Robert Gard
*Lee F. Gunn
*Joseph Hoar
*John D. Hutson
*David M. Brahms

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