Professor SCOTT SILLIMAN (Professor, Duke University): The government comes with a very large hammer.

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Silliman says the impact of the Abu Ghraib scandal was much greater overseas than in the United States.

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Scott Silliman, a law professor at Duke University and a former Air Force lawyer, says the Walter Reed scandal also has political consequences.

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Law Professor Scott Silliman of Duke University says the privilege rests on a 50-year-old Supreme Court decision, one the judges are reluctant to question.

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Professor SCOTT SILLIMAN (Center for Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke University): It is conceivable that the Supreme Court would continue on to want to look at the issue.

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"Walter Reed is clearly a policy issue with political ramifications coming up in this country with the election in '08, and the administration is looking at it in that light, " Silliman said.

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