George Brent Mickum IV is an American lawyer and currently the General Counsel of ERP Compliant Fuels, LLC.
[6] When the United States Supreme Court forced the Department of Defense to provide an opportunity for captives to learn why they were being held, they designed administrative procedures called "Combatant Status Review Tribunals".
[7]On January 12, 2005, The Guardian published an article by Mickum, where he described one of his clients, Bisher Al Rawi, being punished for trying to forward the names of other Guantanamo captives who wanted habeas corpus petitions submitted on their behalf.
Mickum said: "The hypocrisy that we cannot discuss Zubaydah's treatment, but the government can admit to waterboarding him and claim that it is legal is rather astounding."
On March 30, 2009 The Guardian published an article by Mickum, entitled "The truth about Abu Zubaydah: The Bush administration's false claim that my client was a top al-Qaida official has led to his imprisonment and torture.