Thomas Harrington (FBI)

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Thomas Harrington
Harrington in 2009
Associate Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
In office 2010–2012
President	Barack Obama
Director	Robert Mueller
Preceded by	Timothy P. Murphy
Succeeded by	Kevin Perkins

Thomas Harrington was the Associate Deputy Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation which is the number three position in the bureau. He is a former Deputy Director of the Counterterrorism Division at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.^[1]

Harrington met with senior Defense Department investigators, and wrote letters, drawing the attention of the DoD to reports of serious crimes committed by military interrogators against the detainees held in extrajudicial detention at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.^[1]