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31 Jul 2008, 5:10 pm
The military JAGs, two of the civilian general counsels of the services (notably Alberto Mora), a State Department lawyer, an FBI man with a legal degree named Clemente, and others whose names and/or positions don't trip quickly off my tongue (for which I apologize). [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 12:56 am
"In legal terms, Paul Blaise is a pain in the a$$," public defender Addington told jurors in Blaise's case last year. [read post]
26 Nov 2006, 9:02 am
You don't let a bunch of congressmen and judges second-guess Patton's tank tactics. [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 10:11 pm
I just don't quite see the value in OPM evaluating the bona fides or "competence" of OLC's legal advice. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 7:58 am by Benjamin Wittes
Don’t let anyone kid you: This is Eric Holder getting in touch with his inner David Addington. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 6:42 am by Quinta Jurecic
He refers to the danger of drone warfare becoming an “antiseptic” method of “disposing of enemies” (a pretty antiseptic phrase itself), and tells Chait, “I don’t ever want to get to the point where we’re that comfortable with killing. [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 6:59 am
When you give George Bush what he wants, people don't think you are strong on national security. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 3:19 pm
But I don't agree with the tone or substance of the Dellinger memo, although I have the highest respect for Professor Dellinger, one of our leading scholar/lawyers. [read post]
5 Jan 2016, 7:45 am by Quinta Jurecic
’ …And the Obama administration goes to its legal team with that proposition and they write a hundred page memo that agonizes over every nuance and permutation and is full of footnotes and goes through all of the possible objections and comes up with reasons why those objections don’t apply in this instance and finally concludes, ‘We can do X. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 6:36 am
  David Addington and Alberto Gonzales are the highest-profile lawyers to find themselves unemployable. [read post]
12 Jul 2006, 8:09 am
But I sure don't have that impression reading the press reports of the last couple of weeks, including the Washington Post and New York Times today.Consider, for example, all the endless wrangling over whether detainees are entitled to hearings under III Geneva, article 5, to determine whether or not they are entitled to POW status. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 4:17 pm
And don't forget to read David Luban below, dissecting the Administration's mantra that its use of the enhanced techniques "saved innocent lives. [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 3:10 pm
If Calabresi's is truly the view of the unitary executive proponents, they don't speak about it much in mixed company -- because to do so would reveal the radical nature of their otherwise reasonable-sounding theory: Taken seriously, Justice Scalia's widely admired arguments in Morrison would call into question the independence of the Fed and many other agencies that the public now assumes will and should act independently of White House control. [read post]
8 Dec 2007, 9:03 am
., when the President was prepared to adopt Addington's views rather than theirs, and to break the law contrary to their judgment. [read post]