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15 Apr 2013, 10:00 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Among others, Bush administration attorney John Yoo, Cheney adviser David Addington, two former GTMO commanders, and U.S. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 6:53 pm by Benjamin Wittes
  Let us assume that Eric Holder is not channeling his inner David Addington but his inner David Cole—in fact, Eric is much more inclined that way, as you know. [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]
7 Jul 2012, 7:04 pm by Tom Goldstein
  Recently retired Justice John Paul Stevens and Bush Administration lawyer David Addington are among the special guests in the box to the right reserved for the Justices’ guests. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 6:15 am by Jonathan Hafetz
As David Addington, who helped established the broad features of today's consensus legal infrastructure during the Bush administration, told Goldsmith, "We're going to push and push and push until some larger force makes us stop. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 11:40 am by Jack Goldsmith
  Based on a superficial analysis I think the constitutional issues are much closer than the President’s legal critics suggest (and I am very surprised to see that David Addington, agreeing with Ed Meese, thinks the recess appointments are unconstitutional). [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 3:03 am by Jason Poblete
Former Vice President Dick Cheney legal counsel and chief of staff David Addington asking the first well thought out national security question of the evening. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 12:58 pm by Benjamin Wittes
I suspected such a forgone conclusion when it came to the torture memos penned by Yoo, Bybee, Addington, Gonzales, Haynes, etc. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 11:57 pm by Michael Geist
An 2006 confidential cable recounts a meeting between Bernier and then-U.S. ambassador David Wilkins. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 8:58 am by Lovechilde
  A harsh assessment is offered by David Bromwich, based on the key players upon whom Obama has relied and those he has discarded. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 2:48 pm by Lovechilde
" HRW also recommends investigating former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales (counsel to the president and later attorney general), Jay Bybee (head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)), John Rizzo (acting CIA general counsel), David Addington (counsel to the vice president), William J. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 9:48 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
Davis’s explanation of how Haynes and David Addington negotiated Hicks’ plea bargain behind his back — and how the plea bargain was designed to bolster the electoral prospects of John Howard, one of Bush’s last remaining allies, by making the Hicks case go away quietly. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 1:48 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Such an investigation should also include examination of the roles played by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Attorney General John Ashcroft, as well as the lawyers who crafted the legal “justifications” for torture, including Alberto Gonzales (counsel to the president and later attorney general), Jay Bybee (head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)), John Rizzo (acting CIA general counsel), David Addington (counsel to… [read post]
19 Jun 2011, 6:25 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Adler) Glenn Greenwald draws an interesting, if unfavorable, comparison between the actions of lawyers in Department of Justice under President Bush and President Obama.Bush decided to reject the legal conclusions of his top lawyers and ordered the NSA eavesdropping program to continue anyway, even though he had been told it was illegal (like Obama now, Bush pointed to the fact that his own White House counsel (Gonzales), along with Dick Cheney’s top lawyer, David… [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:15 pm by Andrew Goldberg
  Even David Addington, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and longtime advocate for the expansion of executive branch authority with regard to Congress, weighed in this week, authoring a Heritage Foundation memo on patent reform that also took issue with the provision that would make the PTO self-financing. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:15 pm by Andrew Goldberg
  Even David Addington, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and longtime advocate for the expansion of executive branch authority with regard to Congress, weighed in this week, authoring a Heritage Foundation memo on patent reform that also took issue with the provision that would make the PTO self-financing. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:15 pm by Andrew Goldberg
  Even David Addington, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and longtime advocate for the expansion of executive branch authority with regard to Congress, weighed in this week, authoring a Heritage Foundation memo on patent reform that also took issue with the provision that would make the PTO self-financing. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 10:31 am by John Steele
  Addington was a key lawyer in the Bush administration's global war on terror. [read post]