Harvey Rishikof is an American lawyer who was the Convening Authority for the Guantanamo military commission in 2017 and early 2018.

chair of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security.

[5] His past positions include: Rishikof and his deputy, Air Force Colonel Gary Brown were dismissed early in 2018.

[1] A former prosecutor, Morris Davis, made a comparison between the Donald Trump Presidency and a sports team firing its coach.

[1]Richikof and Brown had been negotiating with the suspects' lawyers, offering to take the death penalty off the table, if they agreed to plead guilty, and accept a life sentence.