Thomas Bogar
American lawyer
Thomas J. Bogar is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Army Reserves.
He was a Guantanamo Bay attorney, for Abdul Zahir.
Bogar was appointed to defend Abdul Zahir, an Afghan from the same guest house in Faisalabad where Abu Zubaydah was captured.
He has been at Guantanamo Bay since then. Bogar made two trips Afghanistan, to help prepare Abdul Zahir's defense.
Bogar reports that Abdul Zahir has been subjected to non-traditional interrogations techniques, including:"Hoods, loud music, putting him in extremely hot and cold rooms, strapping him to chairs in uncomfortable positions."
Bogar was an early proponent for trying terrorism suspects by adopting the rules for courts-martial---spelled out in the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
In 2007, LTC Bogar presented his lecture, "Guantanamo - Still a legal black hole?" at the Wisconsin Bar Annual Convention. After two years with the Military Commissions, Bogar returned home. Soon thereafter, he received an emergency call from his former client, Abdul Zahir, still in Guantanamo Bay. Abdul Zahir required emergency spinal surgery and requested Bogar's counsel and advice.
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