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Wendy Kelly

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Wendy Kelly
Wendy Kelly inspects troops in Guantanamo on 2008-02-02.
Service / branchUnited States Army Reserve
RankColonel

Wendy Kelly is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Army Reserves.[1][2][3] In 2004 Kelly was an Assistant United States Attorney.[4] In 2005 Kelly was appointed the director of operations of the Office of Military Commissions[1]

In 2008 an email from Kelly was submitted at hearings of several military commissions in an attempt to show that the Guantanamo military commissions Convening Authority had been involved in composing the charges against Khadr and five other Guantanamo captives.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b John Schiffman (December 9, 2007). "Mission: Fairness". Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 2007-12-17. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
  2. ^ Shanita Simmons (2008-02-02). "474th Celebrates Six Months of Hard Work". JTF-GTMO. Retrieved 2011-09-29. The ELC, which is designed to facilitate military commissions where multiple defendants are tried together, is scheduled to be ready for use by early March. Army Col. Wendy Kelly, director of operations for the Office of Military Commissions, mentioned that the complex will include one of the first military courtrooms designed to protect highly-classified information and provide the state of the art technology usually found in federal courts.
  3. ^ Shanita Simmons (2007-11-02). "Court 21 promises state-of-the art judicial proceedings". The Wire (JTF-GTMO). pp. 3, 12. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  4. ^ "United States Attorney's Office: News Release". United States Attorney's Office. 2004-07-27.
  5. ^ Ross Tuttle (2008-04-03). "Officials in Gitmo Trials Not Even Pretending to be Impartial: More evidence is emerging that the military commissions process is "rife with conflicts of interest."". Alternet. Retrieved 2011-09-29.