User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/ready/Sharon Shaffer

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Sharon A. Shaffer is a military officer, and lawyer. She served as a defense attorney for Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, one of the first nine Guantanamo captives to face charges before a Guantanamo military commissions, as was the Commission Deputy Chief Counsel from 2003 through 2005. She was promoted to Colonel in May 2007.

Military career
She joined the Air Force in February 1990, through a direct commission. She is currently the senior legal advisor for the Air Force Reserve.

Shaffer was one of the first five defense counsels to appear before a Guantanamo military commission.

In 2006 Shaffer, Charlie Swift and Bunnatine Greenhouse were awarded the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage. Like Shaffer Swift was a military officer who vigorously defended Guantanamo captives before Guantanamo military commissions. A written statement that accompanied the award cited