Harvey Rishikof | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | law professor, government official |
Known for | Tried to negotiate plea deals with the suspect charged at the Guantanamo military commissions |
Harvey Rishikof is an American lawyer who was the Convening Authority for the Guantanamo military commission in 2017 and early 2018.[1][2][3]
Rishikof was the previous[timeframe?] chair of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security.[4] In 2020 he was a visiting professor at Temple University.[5]
His past positions include:
Rishikof and his deputy, Air Force Colonel Gary Brown were dismissed early in 2018.[1]
A former prosecutor, Morris Davis, made a comparison between the Donald Trump Presidency and a sports team firing its coach.[1]
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.[1]
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.[6][7][8]