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The photos from Iraq's Abu Ghraih prison shocked the world. This humiliation and torture as carried out by members of the American military.  But it wasn't just A FEW BAD APPLES.
Aired November 16,
2005 at 9pm
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REPORTER: Gillian Findlay
PRODUCER: Morris Karp

WEB EXCLUSIVE
John Woo
John Yoo was a member of the legal team that developed a new policy
for the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq.

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INTERVIEW PROFILES
SCOTT HORTON - JOHN YOO - TIM GOLDEN

Scott Horton Scott Horton is is currently representing several U.S. soldiers who were at Abu Ghraib.
Scott Horton is chairman of the International Law Committee at the New York City Bar Association. He also teaches international human right and humanitarian law at Columbia University.

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.

READ MORE OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE FIFTH ESTATE'S GILLIAN FINDLAY

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.

READ MORE OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE FIFTH ESTATE'S GILLIAN FINDLAY

Tim Golden Tim Golden covers security issues for the New York Times.
Tim Golden is an investigative reporter for the New York Times. Golden has also reported for the Miami Herald and United Press International. He has been a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams that reported on drug corruption in Mexico and the Iran Contra Affair.

His extensive reports on the deaths of "Mullah" Habibullah and Dilawar at Bagram base in Afghanistan appeared in the New York Times in 2005.

READ MORE OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE FIFTH ESTATE'S GILLIAN FINDLAY

 

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