Phil Carter | |
---|---|
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Policy | |
In office April 27, 2009 – December 2009 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Secretary | Robert Gates |
Preceded by | Sandra Hodgkinson |
Succeeded by | William K. Lietzau |
Personal details | |
Spouse | Democratic |
Education | University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., J.D.) |
Military service | |
Branch/service | United States Army |
Years of service | 1997-2006[1] |
Rank | Captain |
Battles/wars | Iraq War War in Afghanistan |
Phillip Eugene Carter[2] is an American lawyer, writer, and former officer in the United States Army.[3][4] Carter was a founding member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and he also served as a principal of the Truman National Security Project.[citation needed] He was senior fellow and counsel at the Center for a New American Security, and director of the CNAS research program on the Military, Veterans & Society. Beginning September 2018, he served as the Director of the Personnel & Resources Program at the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center in Washington, D.C.[1] Carter now works as corporate counsel for Google, supporting the company's public sector business, and teaches as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.