David Brant
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David Brant | |
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| Occupation | NCIS special agent |
| Years active | 1977-2005 |
Dave Brantis a retired careerNaval Criminal Investigative Service(NCIS) special agent and executive. He served in the NCIS from 1977 to 2005, leading the agency as its director from 1997 until his retirement in December 2005.[1]
Background and education[edit]
Brant received his undergraduate education atBradley Universityand a master's degree fromIndiana State University.During his time at NCIS, he graduated from the Senior Executive Course at theJohn F. Kennedy School of GovernmentatHarvard University.
Before joining NCIS, Brant was a police officer with theMiami-Dade Police Department.
Career in law enforcement[edit]
Brant spent thirty years working in law enforcement, 28 of them at the NCIS, the last 8 years as its director.[2]
SenatorJohn Warner,who was himself a formerSecretary of the Navy,read a tribute to Brant into the Senate record, when Brant retired.[2]
Accusations of torture at Guantanamo[edit]
A twenty-page statement issued on July 7, 2004, describes a series of high-level meetings among theUnited States Department of the Navy's mostseniorlawyers,that were triggered by reports, from Brant, that the captives being held in theGuantanamo Bay Naval Basewere being subjected to questionable interrogation techniques.[3]
Alberto J. Mora's statement contained several quotations from Brant, about Brant's reluctance for the NCIS to be involved with the questionable interrogaStion techniques:
"Director Brant emphasized that NCIS would not engage in abusive treatment even if ordered to and did not wish to be even indirectly associated with a facility that engaged in such practices."
In 2011 Brant provided a video testimonial in which he voiced his respect for Mora, his immediate superior, for the principled stand he took as soon as Brant told him about the abuse of the individuals being held in Guantanamo.[4]Brant said Mora didn't seem to even hesistate over whether he should a principled stand to his own superiors. Brant explicitly said he realized that Mora was putting his job on the line with his stand.
Television appearance[edit]
David Brant made a brief cameo appearance on the CBS dramaNCISplaying a Special Agent of the same name in the episode "Frame Up" in Season 3. This episode aired on November 22, 2005 one month before his retirement. He is asked by the character Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) "I heard you were quitting" to which Brant responds "I like to refer to it as a lateral move into the recreational sector...Jethro" to which Gibbs explains to Mossad liaison officer Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) that it "...mostly means fishing and hitting a golf ball".[5][6]
Post law-enforcement career[edit]
After he left NCIS Brant worked as a security expert for the accounting firmsDeloitte ConsultingandBDO.[7]While at those firms he was a dedicated fund-raiser for theNational Law Officers Memorial Fund.
He would eventually leave consulting for accountants to become the executive director of theNational Law Enforcement Museum.[7][8]
References[edit]
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John Warner(2005-12-14)."TRIBUTE TO DAVID L. BRANT".United States Senate.Washington, DC.Retrieved2020-12-28.
Mr. President, I take this opportunity to recognize a dedicated law enforcement official at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, NCIS, David L. Brant, who is retiring after 28 years of service to the United States.
- ^ Alberto J. Mora(2004-07-07)."Memorandum from Navy General Counsel Alberto J. Mora to Navy Inspector General"(PDF).United States Navy.Archived(PDF)from the original on 2015-10-18.Retrieved2007-05-05.
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David Brant (2011-03-11)."Mora Put His Career on the Line".Witness to Guantanamo.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-09-25.Retrieved2020-12-28.
Brant reported questionable interrogation techniques to Alberto Mora, then General Counsel of the Navy.
- ^"David Brant".IMDb.Retrieved29 December2014.
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"Welcome New Staff Members!".Museum Insider.Vol. IX, no. 6.Retrieved2020-12-28.
He served as the Director of NCIS for his last 8 years with the agency and was influential in creating the CBS show, NCIS, with Mark Harmon. He was a director with Deloitte Consulting for six years. Just prior to joining the Memorial Fund, he served as the Managing Director of BDO's Federal Practice.
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Lisa Trigg (2019-10-14)."Beware 'Us vs. Them' thinking, says former NCIS chief: Brant, who earned master's at ISU, led Naval Criminal Investigative Service".Tribune-Star.Retrieved2020-12-28.
He also worked for the National Law Officers Memorial Fund in Washington, D.C., and the National Law Enforcement Museum.