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6 Jun 2011, 2:01 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Washingtonian magazine has published this profile of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s counselor, David Addington, who is now at the Heritage Foundation. [read post]
16 May 2011, 9:40 am by PJ Blount
The Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Addington v. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 9:07 pm by Benjamin Wittes
You don’t have to be David Addington to think that the Commander in Chief Clause represents a textual commitment to the president of the power to decide whom to target with lethal force. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 12:05 am by John Steele
David Addington, an influential member of the "War Council" that was at the heart of the torture memos affair, has ended up at the Heritage Foundation (Blog of the Legal Times). [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 1:07 pm by The Editors
In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players, namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a long held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment.* 10.) [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 7:43 pm by Kenneth Anderson
My dear friend Sandy Levinson posts briefly on this over at Balkinization, and comments on a speech by Jack Goldsmith at University of Texas: I note that Jack Goldsmith gave an excellent talk at the University of Texas last week making the argument that in almost all fundamental respects the Obama Administration is continuing the “anti– and counter-terrorism” policies of the “second Bush Administration,” i.e., the second-term Bush presidency that freed itself,… [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 7:24 pm by Kenneth Anderson
My dear friend Sandy Levinson posts briefly on this over at Balkinization, and comments on a speech by Jack Goldsmith at University of Texas: I note that Jack Goldsmith gave an excellent talk at the University of Texas last week making the argument that in almost all fundamental respects the Obama Administration is continuing the “anti– and counter-terrorism” policies of the “second Bush Administration,” i.e., the second-term Bush presidency that freed itself, to at… [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 9:26 pm by Sandy Levinson
It is difficult to disagree with Goldsmith's argument, empirically. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 5:55 pm by David Luban
Thiessen, rejecting the charge that Cheney's group are McCarthyites, asks "Where was the moral outrage when fine lawyers like John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Jim Haynes, Steve Bradbury, and others came under vicious personal attack? [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 6:36 pm by Jeralyn
CCR says: “Members of Congress must come clean about whether they encouraged or objected to torture during these many secret meetings with CIA officials and we need a complete accounting of Cheney’s counsel, David Addingtons, role in the creation of the torture program. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 4:53 am by JB
But when Michael Chertoff, then-chief of Justice’s criminal division, refused the CIA’s request for a blanket pledge not to prosecute its officers for torture, Yoo met at the White House with David Addington, Dick Cheney’s chief counsel, and then–White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 11:45 am by Josh Camson
Penn State Law's Appellate Clinic Files Amicus Brief in Gross v. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 4:08 pm
Here's a news story from the Washington Post that day describing the arrival. [read post]
18 Oct 2009, 8:23 pm
  Meanwhile, the Obama administration has apparently succeeded in pressuring Spain to water down its universal jurisdiction statute, the one that the Spaniards were supposed to use to prosecute Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and David Addington. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 8:42 am
 I raise this because of today's news about the Nobel Peace Prize, which Rick has already blogged about. [read post]
3 Oct 2009, 7:06 am
(3) Which brings us to the most troubling of Ben's suggestions - that somehow in employing this authority President Obama is channeling Dick Cheney (or perhaps more specifically David Addington and John Yoo). [read post]
3 Oct 2009, 4:21 am
But rules there are nonetheless.(3) Which brings us to the most troubling of Ben's suggestions - that somehow in employing this authority President Obama is channeling Dick Cheney (or perhaps more specifically David Addington and John Yoo). [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 2:07 pm
(For the record, Waxman reportedly crossed swords with Dick Cheney and David Addington on detainee issues.) 2. [read post]
12 Jul 2009, 1:36 pm
I'd also note, as I did the other day, that key Bush officials refused to be interviewed for the report, such as Counsel to Vice President David Addington, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Attorney General John Ashcroft, DOJ Office of Legal Counsel Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, and former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet. [read post]