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Peter Murphy
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Peter Murphy is an American lawyer, and former senior legal advisor to the Commandant of the Marine Corps.[1]

Education

Education[2]
degree graduated institution
B.A. 1972 Long Island University
J.D. 1974 Saint John’s University School of Law

Career

United States Secretary of Defense asked Murphy to serve on a panel to look into the Haditha incident in 2006.[3]

Murphy was senior legal advisor to the United States Marine Corp Commandant in 1989, when he drafted "The Importance of Environmental Law Considerations for the Military Commander & Advisor".[4]

Murphy played a role, in December of 2002, of reports that interrogators from the Joint Task Force 160 and Joint Task Force 170 were using controversial interrogation techniques on the captives held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1]

Murphy was the Counsel to the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps's when Alberto Mora, the Department of the Navy's General Counsel convened several meetings of the Navy's most senior lawyers after David Brant, the Director of the NCIS, drew Mora's attention to use of the questionable interrogation techniques by the Navy's tenants at Guantanamo.[1]

Sea Power reports that Murphy was injured on 9-11.[5]

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