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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]
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]
16 May 2007, 10:03 am
The dramatic details should not obscure the bottom line: the administration's alarming willingness, championed by, among others, Vice President Cheney and his counsel, David Addington, to ignore its own lawyers. [read post]
24 Jun 2007, 3:56 pm
When the history books are written, the Vice President and his counsel, David Addington, will be at the forefront. [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]
21 May 2008, 2:29 am
It was reportedly influenced by the views of David Addington. [read post]
21 Dec 2022, 5:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
The main lawyers involved in the effort--David Addington (as counsel to the VP and known as "Cheney's Cheney"), Jay Bybee (Bush's first head of the Office of Legal Counsel), and John Yoo (Bybee's deputy)--were investigated but not prosecuted for war crimes by a Spanish judge and ultimately suffered only modest reputational consequences at home. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 10:58 pm
The White House's objections to DOJ's new views had been conveyed orally up to that point, but shortly after March 10th, White House Counsel Gonzales issued a memo, presumably drafted by David Addington and presumably adopting a view opposite that of OLC. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 6:10 pm
At the end of the day, Cheney former counsel David Addington, now his Chief of Staff, took the stand. [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]
7 Nov 2007, 10:21 pm
I have no idea whether this is correct, but assuming it is, there's surely nothing wrong with Bush lecturing Musharraf on the latter's violation of Pakistani law. [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 12:37 pm
Two months ago, reports the AP, Cheney chief of staff David Addington told Congress the vice president belongs to neither the executive nor legislative branch of government, but rather is attached by the Constitution to Congress. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 8:35 am
Here they are: Floyd Abrams Spencer Ackerman David Addington Mike Allen Michael Anton Kurt Armfeld (?) [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 4:25 am
In the early 1990s, both Haynes and Vice President Cheney's top aide, David Addington, were politically appointed lawyers in the Pentagon during the Bush-Quayle administration. [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]
7 Jun 2007, 9:59 am
Comey, Philbin and Jack Goldsmith, the DOJ attorneys who wrote the legal analysis of the secret surveillance program were in that meeting with Cheney, his chief of staff David Addington, Card, Gonzales and unnamed members of the intelligence community. [read post]