Karl R. Thompson is an American attorney and Assistant Deputy Chief Prosecutor General for the US Justice Department Legal Counsel from 2014 to 20 January 2017.
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Education
Thompson received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1991, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1998, and J.D. from the University of Chicago Faculty of Law with high honors in 2000.
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Careers
Thompson signed up for Judge David S. Tatel of the US Court of Appeals for Circuit D.C and for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court during the 2002 Validity. He worked in private practice at O'Melveny & Myers, which specializes in international litigation and appeals. He later joined the Office of Counsel as a Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General. He later became Assistant Deputy Attorney General and also served as a Counsel for the Attorney General. In March 2014, he became Assistant Deputy Head of Attorney General's Office of Legal Counsel, acting as head of the office.
Controversy
At the end of 2009 the New York Post and the Washington Times began to criticize the Obama Presidency for hiring lawyers who have helped provide legal assistance to Guantanamo prisoners. At first the New York Post and Washington Times only mentioned two of the nine attorneys they reported to have "helped terrorists". But March 2010 another seven have been named, including Thompson.
Thompson was one of nine lawyers whose appointment was criticized by this commentator. On March 9, 2010, Thompson's boss at O'Melveny & amp; Myers, Walter Dellinger, described asking Thompson to help Commander Lieutenant William Kuebler in preparing his defense for Canada, Guantanamo's prisoner, Omar Khadr. According to Dellinger Thompson's help on Khadr's case lasted several months, and was done in parallel with previous Thompson duties with the company.
Lawyers and commentators from all over the political spectrum are advancing to defend Thompson and appointed designers who have been chosen to be criticized.
On May 24, 2010, Steven Edwards, writing for Vancouver Sun , reported that Canwest News Service recently learned that there is an internal controversy within the Obama administration over the new rules to commission Guantanamo military. A new 281 page manual was prepared, to update the commission to match the changes after the passage of the Military Commission Act of 2009. Edwards wrote that the change would trigger a reduction in the cost of one-third of Guantanamo detainees planned to be prosecuted by the Public Prosecutor. murder.
Edwards noted that people from OLC are looking for edits to get new rules. Edwards also noted that OLC hired two lawyers including Thompson, who has been dubbed as a member of "Al Qaeda 7" because they have worked on behalf of terrorism suspects before joining the government. The article does not state, however, that Thompson played any role in this or any role in seeking this edit.
Access General Inspector
Thompson signed a legal opinion on the access of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice for certain limited classes of information protected by the Federal Wiretap Act, Federal Regulations on Criminal Procedure 6 (e) (relating to the grand jury issue), and section 626 of the Invite Exhibition -Wide Credit Reporting. link This law protects highly sensitive information such as personalized intercepted phone conversation content, grand jury secret testimony, and personal, banking, and employment credit information obtained by the FBI. The opinion concludes that the Inspector General's access to such information is controlled by the provisions of this law, which states that the Department "shall not disclose," "shall not spread," or would violate the law by disclosing information except as provided in law, by the provisions of the Inspector General's Act, which says the Department will grant access to the Inspector General for "all records" available to the Department. This opinion also concludes that, under the provisions of this law, the Inspector General may obtain protected information for use in the review of law enforcement operations of the Department (including investigation of violations), but not for use in connection with review (such as regular financial audits) which do not have a significant relationship with the Department's behavior from its law enforcement function. Further opinions conclude that when the Inspector General seeks access to information protected under this law, a determination must be made that the investigation relates to the Department's enforcement activities. In the case of wiretaps and consumer credit information, the opinion does not say who should make that determination. In the case of grand jury information, the opinion concludes that, under the simple language of the Criminal Rules of Procedure, the prosecutor should determine that information may be shared. This involves an objective determination of whether the Inspector General's investigation is concerned with law enforcement, not a discretionary decision on whether the prosecutor feels that the Inspector General should receive such information. Until now no documents were eventually rejected but OIG has complained that the need to comply with the provisions of this law is contrary to the letter and spirit of the IG Law and has delayed the issuance of a critical report from the Department of Justice.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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