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12 Oct 2007, 10:24 am
It remains true, of course, that for about seven months which to him must have seemed like seven years, Goldsmith stood up to the continuous vicious onslaughts of David Addington, a brutish Cheney thug who, in service of right wing views held by him and his master, has apparently been as nasty a piece of work as the bureaucracy has known in many a year, if ever. [read post]
6 Oct 2007, 6:12 am
It describes in considerable detail, consistent with the need to protect classified information, his conversations with John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington (counsel to the vice president) and other Bush insiders. [read post]
6 Oct 2007, 4:50 am
Most especially, I focused on Goldsmith's references to David Addingtonâ€â [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 1:29 pm
Comey and David S. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 9:27 am
Addington. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 10:49 pm
The opinions are classified and while the article is filled with anecdotal quotes from former officials praising former DOJ officials like Comey and former Associate White House Counsel Jack Goldsmith, and criticizing David Addington and Alberto Gonzales, it's short on specifics. [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 8:01 am
Some highly experienced law of war experts inside the military would eventually conclude (following the "gap" argument about GC3 and GC4) that they should be treated instead as spies and saboteurs under GC4, but no one so far as I know suggested that they would be POWs, and the White House lawyers did not have the background knowledge really to understand that (the role of David Addington in this debate is unknown to me, but I do wonder). [read post]
15 Sep 2007, 10:07 am
(David Addington, John Bellinger, and some others are referenced throughout the book for their especially idiotic, chauvinistic, and dangerous views.) [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 9:02 am
Instapundit has a podcast up of an interview with Jack Goldsmith, formerly of the Office of Legal Counsel and one of those who balked at Dick Cheney, David Addington and Alberto Gonzales' attempt to stretch the NSA wiretapping program past what he and James Comey and others believed to be the legal limits. [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 8:48 am
But Miers had spent years working for Bush alongside lawyers such as David Addington, surely absorbing their views. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 5:08 am
See generally (for sleeping aid), Michael Stokes Paulsen, Who "Owns" the Government's Attorney-Client Privilege? [read post]
8 Sep 2007, 9:04 am
There's obviously a trade-off and it's hard to know when to draw the line. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 7:41 am
"Takeover" is a structured as a narrative, with scenes and characters, and it tells the stories of key figures such as David Addington, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, Jack Goldsmith, Jim Haynes, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and others. [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 11:57 pm
Most notably, Goldsmith infuriated Vice President Dick Cheney's lawyer, David Addington, who by the best account wields extraordinary power and excels at bureaucratic fights.Addington, who Goldsmith describes as the architect of the president's warrantless surveillance program, consistently fought to expand the power of the presidency by hewing to secrecy and successfully fighting internal advice to ask Congress to bless the… [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 11:03 am
Goldsmith says that when he questioned one of the administration's legal interpretations, David Addington, the vice president's legal counsel (and now chief of staff) told him, "If you rule that way, the blood of the hundred thousand people who die in the next attack will be on your hands. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 9:16 am
The WaPo has a page-one story focusing on the book’s discussion of David Addington, Vice President Cheney’s top lawyer and now chief of staff. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 1:36 am
"Rosen also has several interesting details that Goldsmith recounts about David Addington and the Vice President's shop, such as this one, concerning the remarkable way that they circumvented FISA before Goldsmith came aboard:[Goldsmith] shared the White House's concern that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act might prevent wiretaps on international calls involving terrorists. [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 1:11 am
Who's Next? [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 2:40 pm
(I've previously explained that I think this view is wrong -- but I doubt I'm going to convince DOJ, let alone David Addington and the President.)So let's say the two branches are at loggerheads after a contempt citation is issued. [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 3:50 pm
Here's more from the column:"[Cheney's chief of staff and counsel, David] Addington does not cite any authority or language for his new claim that the Vice President is not an 'agency.' In fact, there is none. [read post]
