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17 Apr 2013, 11:30 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Heritage’s David Addington has some concerns with CISPA. [read post]
3 Jun 2007, 10:38 am
Consider this observation from Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower. [read post]
20 May 2007, 9:57 am
Still, I presume, as a matter of fact, that Bush had lawyers within the White House--David Addington, most certainly--who were willing to denounce the caution of Jack Goldsmith and others. [read post]
1 May 2008, 4:39 am
Such evidence of the lawyers' belief in the illegality of the conduct they approved is unlikely ever to emerge because, in some important sense, John Yoo, David Addington, et al., believed in the "correctness" of the conclusions contained in the torture memos. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 11:31 am by Elina Saxena, Quinta Jurecic
The two discussed Russia’s continuing aid to the Syrian government along with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s concerns that, together with Iranian forces, Syria’s army could form a “second terrorist front against Israel. [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 5:55 am
They have opposed the ideas and policies pushed forward by the President's political appointees, like David Addington and John Yoo in the context of interrogation and detention. [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]
5 Nov 2007, 2:15 pm
In plain truth, it is only the executive power fanatics like Vice President Cheney, David Addington (Cheney's counsel), and John Yoo (the author of the notorious torture memo) who actually believe that the president has the constitutional authority to disregard federal law whenever he thinks it would be useful to do so. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 1:32 am
Now I wonder whether that, too, was the work of Alberto Gonzales and David Addington, rather than Levin himself, and whether Levin's planned follow-up memo (see below) might have called that analysis into question.)Levin then set about to write another opinion, one that would cut back on the approved techniques (and that would, at a minimum, repudiate or temper the previous OLC advice on waterboarding).Unfortunately, at this point Gonzales was confirmed as AG -- and… [read post]
20 Sep 2006, 11:43 am
And the CIA people, at least, did know that what they were doing was illegal, as evidenced by the fact that their fear of ultimately being put in the dock led to their initial requests for the CYA memoranda written or approved by reprehensible lawyer-savages like John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Alberto Gonzalez, Jack Goldsmith (who may be a bit less reprehensible and savage), and others. [read post]
16 May 2011, 9:40 am by PJ Blount
The Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Addington v. [read post]
16 Apr 2009, 7:59 am
It is unclear, however, whether the United States pressed Spain not to issue indictments or to pursue prosecutions.The so-called Bush Six includes: former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith; former Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, David Addington; former Department of Justice attorneys John Yoo and Jay S. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 7:26 am
" Levin had already antagonized David Addington by adopting the Goldsmith view on the NSA program, and by initiating a reconsideration of whether the CIA interrogation techniques were lawful. [read post]
2 May 2008, 2:12 am
Robert Wexler (PDF 53.4 KB)Letter Regarding an Alleged Incident of Antisemitism in South Florida05/01/2008 Letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin From House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell and Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Chairman Ed Markey (PDF 108 KB)Letter Regarding the Proposed Merger of XM and Sirius Satellite Radio05/01/2008 Letter to House Appropriations Chairman Dave Obey from Ranking Member Jerry Lewis (PDF 196… [read post]
26 Nov 2006, 9:02 am
Bush, Cheney, and advisors such as David Addington and John Yoo had been searching for ways to expand executive power, and this was the golden opportunity. [read post]