User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Todd Cabelka

Captain (USN) Todd Cabelka accepts a re-enlistment.

Todd Michael Cabelka is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Navy Reserve. Cabelka completed a fourteen month hitch in the Staff Judge Advocate's office at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 2008 and 2009.

Civilian career

Cabelka worked as associate counsel for the University of Maine, and director of labor relations for the University of Southern Maine. When he was hired as an associate at Thorpe, Compton & Christian S.C., Delavan, in 2006, the Wisconsin Lawyer reported that he focussed on: "labor and employment law, higher education law, real estate, and business law."

Guantanamo service

Following his return to Janesville Wisconsin Cabelka set out on a speaking tour, to counter what he saw as misconceptions about Guantanamo. He has told local reporters he has considered writing a book based on his experience at Guantanamo.

Cabelka says part of his role was to meet with captives who were going to be repatriated, to help prepare them, so he had daily contact with the captives. This statement is at odds with other accounts that captives weren't informed when they were going to be repatriated, or even that they had been cleared for release.

Cabelka claims the Guantanamo captives participation in their interrogations was voluntary.

Cabelka claims only fifteen percent of the Guantanamo captives are mentally ill, as opposed to 29 percent of the inmates in the US Federal prison system.