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Alberto Mora

Alberto Mora, the general counsel of the Navy from 2001 to 2006, is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.  He filed an amicus brief for plaintiffs in the Al Shimari case.

January 2017

  • gitmo protest

    Mike Pompeo is unfit to lead the CIA if he doesn't reject torture

    Alberto Mora
    I was the Navy’s chief lawyer when, in 2002, I first learned that detainees were unlawfully interrogated. That cannot happen again

May 2016

  • The sun rises on the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, June 22, 2004. On Monday a judge declared the notorious prison a crime scene and forbade its destruction, as had been previously offered by President Bush.(AP Photo/John Moore)

    Abu Ghraib prisoners deserve, finally, their day in court

    Alberto Mora
    No victims have been compensated for what they suffered, and this remains a stain on the US justice system. An appeal on 12 May could change that
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