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Lawfare Contributor Cully Stimson Nominated to be General Counsel of the Navy

John Bellinger
Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 11:22 AM

Almost lost in the maelstrom of other news yesterday, the White House sent seventeen new Presidential nominations to the Senate, including the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division and four agency general counsels.

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Almost lost in the maelstrom of other news yesterday, the White House sent seventeen new Presidential nominations to the Senate, including the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division and four agency general counsels.

Included in this group is Charles “Cully” Stimson to be General Counsel of the Navy. Cully is a contributor to Lawfare and is well-known to many Lawfare readers. He directs the Heritage Foundation’s National Security Program and has written and spoken extensively on a range of national and homeland security issues, including FISA, detainees, and military prosecutions. His most recent contribution is a thoughtful paper discussing the legal complexities of detaining ISIS members under the 2001 AUMF. Cully is a Navy JAG officer and previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs.

Cully is well-qualified to be General Counsel of the Navy. I hope he will be confirmed quickly.

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John B. Bellinger III is a partner in the international and national security law practices at Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC. He is also Adjunct Senior Fellow in International and National Security Law at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as The Legal Adviser for the Department of State from 2005–2009, as Senior Associate Counsel to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council at the White House from 2001–2005, and as Counsel for National Security Matters in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice from 1997–2001.

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