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Scott Horton is is currently representing several U.S. soldiers who were
at Abu Ghraib.He has represented many important figures including Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner as well as having worked with the Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights), Human Rights Watch and the International League for Human Rights.
In April 2003, Horton was asked by senior uniformed military attorneys to advocate for more restricted detention and interrogation policies.
Scott Horton is currently representing several U.S. soldiers who were at Abu Ghraib.
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Professor Yoo (see photo at right) is a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96.From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel, where he worked on issues involving the Global War on Terror, national security and the separation of powers.
While working at the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, he helped draft the August 2002 memo that justified the loosening of the Geneva Convention protections.
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Tim Golden covers security issues for the New York Times.
His extensive reports on the deaths of "Mullah" Habibullah and Dilawar at Bagram base in Afghanistan appeared in the New York Times in 2005.
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