re: Tom Odom's 1st link above

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/story/38886.html

The five White House, Pentagon and Justice Department lawyers named in the McClatchy article are David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, William J. Haynes, John Yoo and Timothy E. Flanigan.

The top two, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, attended but did not finish at service acadamies. That struck me as a bit odd, especially Addington's reason, if Napolitano can be believed. William J. Haynes was an army CPT (1984-1989). No military service indicated for John Yoo and Timothy E. Flanigan; although Flanigan was born at Fort Belvoir.

Here are some links to them.

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David Addington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Addington

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/200...?currentPage=4

After high school, Addington pursued an ambition that he had had for years: to join the military. Rather than attending West Point, as his father had, he enrolled in the U.S. Naval Academy, in Annapolis. But he dropped out before the end of his freshman year. He went home and, according to Napolitano, worked in a Long John Silver’s restaurant. “The academy wasn’t academically challenging enough for him,” Napolitano said.
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Alberto Gonzales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales

... Gonzales enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1973, for a four year term of enlistment, serving two years at Fort Yukon, Alaska before released from active duty to be a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy. Prior to beginning his third year at the academy, which would have caused him to incur a further service obligation, he left the Academy and was allowed out of his enlistment contract ...
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William J. Haynes II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Haynes,_II
http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/haynesresume.htm

http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/gc/gcbio.html

Born in Texas, Mr. Haynes earned his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Davidson College, where he was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. After law school, Mr. Haynes clerked for U.S. District Judge James B. McMillan in Charlotte, North Carolina. He also served four years on active duty as a Captain in the U.S. Army [1984-1989, from resume].
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John Yoo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/po...erland&emc=rss

From the chambers of Judge Silberman, Mr. Yoo moved on to a clerkship with Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, stopping briefly at Berkeley. Justice Thomas helped place him with Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, as general counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Along the way, Mr. Yoo passed up a chance to work in the Washington office of the law firm Jones Day, where he caught the eye of a senior partner, Timothy E. Flanigan. After five years that Mr. Yoo spent at Berkeley, writing on legal aspects of foreign affairs, war powers and presidential authority, the two men met up again when Mr. Yoo joined the Bush campaign's legal team, where Mr. Flanigan was a key lieutenant.

Mr. Flanigan became the deputy White House counsel under Alberto R. Gonzales. Mr. Yoo ended up as a deputy in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, or the O.L.C., a small unit of lawyers that advises the executive branch on constitutional questions and on the legality of complex or disputed policy issues.
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Timothy E. Flanigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Flanigan

Timothy Elliott Flanigan (b. May 16, 1953 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American lawyer and politician.