Department of Defense

Major John Francis Leso

• 2002-2003  Member, Behavioral Science Consultation Team JTF-GTMO
• 2002  Author, interrogation protocol that relied in part on SERE “reverse-engineered” torture techniques
• 2002, 2003  Chief of the Clinical Psychology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
• 2005  U.S. Embassy Austria
• 1996-current?  Member, American Psychological Association (APA)

• Born in New Orleans, LA
• 1998-2003  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Chair of the Department of Psychology 
• 2001  The Pentagon, Chief Psychologist for the Mental Health Task Force
• 2003  Chair of the Psychology Department, Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii
• 2003  Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Chief Psychologist, Joint Intelligence Group
• 2004  Abu Ghraib, Director, Behavioral Science Unit, Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center at Abu Ghraib
• 2007-2008  Guantanamo Chief Psychologist
• 2008 Author, Fixing Hell: An Army Psychologist Confronts Abu Ghraib
• 2008-Current  Dean, School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio
• 2009  President, American Board of Health Psychology
• 2009-2010  President elect, Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association

• Graduated from University of California at Berkeley and Boston University School of Law.
• Partner at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison, 1995-2001.
• Partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton and Scripps, 1991-1995.
• Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health at U.S. Department of Energy in the Reagan administration, 1985-1988.
• Deputy Solicitor at the U.S. Department of the Interior during the Reagan administration, 1984-1985.
• Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice during the Regan administration, 1982-1984.

• Born 1932, Evanston, Illinois.
• Graduated from Princeton. Attended Georgetown University Law Center but did not graduate.
• Elected to U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois beginning in 1962.
• Joined Nixon White House in 1969. Served in several positions, eventually at cabinet level and as U.S. representative to NATO.
• Became White House Chief of Staff, then Secretary of Defense for President Ford.
• Headed corporations including G.D. Searle pharmaeuticals and General Instument.
• Served as George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, 2001-2006.
• In retirement, named a one-year fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

• Born 1949, Menard, TX
• Grew up in Gallipolis, OH
• B.A. in history, Ohio State University. M.S. Educational Administration, University of Southern California.
• Joined army in 1972, commissioned through ROTC.
• As a major general, supervised Guantanamo operations, including prisoner interrogations there.
• In September 2003, sent to Iraq by Donald Rumsfeld to "Gitmo-ize" U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib. 
• In 2004, assigned to run prisons in Iraq.
• In May 2006, refused to testify in trial of dog-handlers at Abu Ghraib.
• Retired from military in July 2006.

• Born 1958, Waco, Texas.
• Graduated from Davidson College, Harvard Law School.
• Partner with law firm Jenner & Block, associate counsel with General Dynamics Corp.
• Staff counsel for Defense Department when Cheney was secretary; Haynes's immediate supervisor was David Addington
• General Counsel for Rumsfeld's Defense Dept., 2001-2008 (Addington's old job)
• Left government in February 2008 to become Chief Corporate Counsel for Chevron

• Born 1953, Philadelphia.
• Graduated from Harvard University and Georgetown University Law School.
• Under Reagan, worked on National Security Council, then in Defense Department under Richard Perle and Caspar Weinberger.
• During Clinton years, worked as a private lawyer and a lobbyist for the government of Turkey.
• Under Bush, served as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.
• After leaving government, joined Hudson Institute think tank

• B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Notre Dame
• MBA, Pepperdine University
• J.D., St. John's University
• LLM, Georgetown University
• Served 27 years in U.S. Air Force, retiring at rank of colonel
• In 1998, as a civilian, named Principal Deputy General Counsel for the Air Force
• From 2000, served as Principal Deputy General Counsel for the Department of Defense
• Since 2009, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for A&M General, a military contractor manufacturing Humvee vehicles

• Grew up in a small town in Kansas
• U.S. Army, interrogator
• Defense Intelligence Agency, civilian analyst
• Chief of the “Interrogation Control Element” in Guantanamo
• Supervised interrogations of Mohammed al Qahtani, also known as the “20th high-jacker”

• 2002-04, Staff Judge Advocate, Joint Task Force, Guantanamo.
• After June 2004, Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs, Department of Defense.