Carter, Phil

An American lawyer, writer, and former officer in the United States Army.Carter was a founding member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and he also served as a principal of the Truman National Security Project. He is now senior fellow and counsel at the Center for a New American Security, and director of the CNAS research program on the Military, Veterans & Society. Carter attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a Bachelor's Degree there in 1997, and his Juris Doctor in 2004. Carter also received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship in 1996. He wrote the "Intel Dump" blog beginning in 2002. In 2008, he began writing this blog for the Washington Post, and edited the Convictions legal blog for Slate magazine. Carter's articles have appeared in many other publications, including the New York Times, Washington Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Tribune. In 2006, he won an award (with Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon) for a feature on torture that appeared in Slate.