Philip B. Heymann is a former Deputy Attorney General

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 in the Clinton administration and currently a law professor at Harvard Law School

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. He has been known as an active critic of the George W. Bush

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 administration, particularly on its warrantless domestic spying program

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In 1954 he graduated from Yale

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, where he was a member of Scroll and Key Society

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Heymann was formerly a Watergate scandal

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 prosecutor, and compiled the National Football League

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 report on the sexual harassment

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 of female sportswriter Lisa Olson

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Heymann was co-chairman of the Constitution Project

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's bipartisan Sentencing Committee.

He is also the author of the book Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy For A Democratic Society, published by MIT Press.