Scott Horton

...Horton served as foreign policy adviser to Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik. He is not related to Scott Horton (lawyer), an attorney and journalist from Harper's Magazine; however, the lawyer Scott Horton (lawyer) is...

In this article: Austin Chronicle, Texas, Antiwar.com, Harper's Magazine, Andrew Bacevich, and Robert A. Pape

Scott Horton is a New York attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, as well as emerging markets and international law. In April 2007, he joined Harper's Magazine as a legal affairs and national security...

In this article: Detainee, Harper's Magazine, Columbia Law School, War on Terrorism, International League for Human Rights, American University, Matthew Diaz, Bilal Hussein, and CIA

Scott Horton interviews David Cole, author of The Torture Memos: I believe that there must be some form of official accountability for these wrongs, and some official recognition that the illegality included the actions of the lawyers who...

In this article: David Cole and John Yoo

...petty contract fraud cases? If this was a conscious decision, it urgently requires a public justification. About Scott Horton Scott Horton is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, where he writes on law and national security...

In this article: Justice Department, CIA, Detainee, World War II, Office of Legal Counsel, and American University

Scott Horton wants to know why Attorney General Eric Holder didn't release the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report yesterday along with the rest of the torture docs. One possibility: [T[he Holder Justice Department may want...

In this article: Eric Holder, CIA, Justice Department, John Yoo, Office of Professional Responsibility, and Jay Bybee

...in Paktika, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov 25, 2007. Airstrikes are at the center of the battle for "hearts and minds" in Afghanistan. AP Scott Horton teaches law of armed conflict at Columbia Law School in New York. Courtesy of Scott Horton

In this article: Afghanistan, David D. McKiernan, NPR, Taliban, Pentagon, United States, and Alberto Gonzales

...them? Click Image Below to View a Gallery of Some Rarely Seen Abu Ghraib Torture Photos Click here for Scott Horton's post from Friday. Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national-security affairs for Harper's...

In this article: Barack Obama, The Daily Beast, Harper's Magazine, Pentagon, Tax, David Patraeus, Richard Wolffe, and Culprit

...to try and be more careful. " Update: A few readers have noted in the comments of this post that Scott Horton, in an article for the Daily Beast today, says he's confirmed the Telegraph's report with sources of his own. But Horton gets some...

In this article: Detainee, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Allegation, and The Daily Beast

Scott Horton is an international human rights lawyer, an adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School, and a contributor at Harper's. Scott is my guest today on Salon Radio to discuss two articles he wrote in the last week -- this one,...

In this article: Reason, PBS, Cathy Young, Proposition 8, and Columbia Law School

...but never this long. Several hundred journalists in Iraq have been detained, some briefly and some for several weeks, according to Scott Horton, a New York-based lawyer hired by the AP to work on Hussein's case. Horton also worked on behalf...

In this article: Bilal Hussein, Iraq, U.S., Fallujah, Ramadi, Tom Curley, and Allegation