Veale, William W.: - William Veale retired as Chief Assistant Public Defender in Contra Costa County, California in 2006 after 31 years trying death penalty cases and the like. For 13 years he was the supervisor of the first Alternate Defender Office in the United States to handle felony criminal cases. In 2008, he and Dennis Cunningham filed a lawsuit on behalf of a soldier injured at the Pentagon accusing then-Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force General Richard Myers of complicity in the Attacks of 9/11, mass murder, and treason.