Andrew Williams (US Navy Lawyer)
Andrew Williams is an American lawyer, and officer in the United States Navy Reserve and the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corp. Williams lives in Gig Harbor, Washington.
Williams is notable for his resignation from the Navy, in December 2007. In a letter to the Peninsula Gateway, that received widespread comment, Williams explained his decision to resign was triggered by answers Brigadier Thomas W. Hartmann, gave in his Senate testimony about torture. Hartmann was the senior serving officer in the Office of Military Commissions—the body that conducts Guantanamo military commissions.
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