Todd Pierce

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Todd Pierce
Born 1952
Nationality United States
Occupation lawyer
Known for Defending Guantanamo captives

Todd Pierce is an American lawyer and an officer in the United States Army Reserve, who volunteered to help defend Guantanamo captives.[1][2] Pierce took leave from the State of Minnesota's Department of Administration on June 1, 2008.

An article Pierce published in the the National Law Journal on the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, triggered widespread comments.[3] Accord

“As evident in Yoo and Delahunty’s legal memos asserting unitary executive authority, the legal theory underpinning Guantánamo and the military commissions were an assault upon the structure of our form of constitutional government; lawfare. It was not the inevitable conclusion required by the Sept. 11 attacks, but the exploitation of a tragedy to import a foreign legal ideology, a legal bacillus, into our legal system.”

References

  1. Jeff Hage (2011-06-02). [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Funioneagle.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fprinceton-native-provides-legal-counsel-at-the-guantanamo-bay%2F&date=2013-01-11 "Princeton native provides legal counsel at the Guantanamo Bay By Jeff Hage on June 2, 2011 at 6:23 pm"]. Princeton Union-Eagle. Archived from the original on 2013-01-11. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Funioneagle.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fprinceton-native-provides-legal-counsel-at-the-guantanamo-bay%2F&date=2013-01-11. Retrieved 2013-01-11. "But Pierce, a 1969 graduate of Princeton High School and who has a house in St. Paul, is more concerned about upholding the U.S. Constitution in its protection of basic freedoms and the law, he said in a recent interview in Princeton." 
  2. Kevin Diaz (2011-04-21). "Gitmo detainees get Twin Cities defense". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on 2013-01-11. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.startribune.com%2Fprintarticle%2F%3Fid%3D120426139&date=2013-01-11. "One of her colleagues is Army Maj. Todd Pierce, a Reservist who volunteered for active duty from a civilian job doing technical contracting and professional services for the Minnesota Department of Administration." 
  3. Raffaela Wakeman (2012-01-12). "Today’s Headlines and Commentary". Lawfare. Archived from the original on 2013-01-11. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawfareblog.com%2F2012%2F01%2Ftodays-headlines-and-commentary-103%2F&date=2013-01-11. "Guantanamo Birthday festivities continue with this National Law Journal opinion piece penned by Major Todd E. Pierce (who is assigned to the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel), and this PBS Newshour episode."