Search for: "David S. Addington"
Results 61 - 80
of 178
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
20 Apr 2007, 7:52 pm
He fought hard to reform the entire detainee legal structure, eventually concluding that he couldn't stay in his Pentagon post after clashes with David Addington et al. for his pains. [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]
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]
21 Jun 2007, 2:32 pm
Addington that the vice president's office is indeed such an entity. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 11:00 pm
’ On January 13, 2003, in a meeting with Muller, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, Counsel to the Vice-President David Addington, Yoo, and Defense Department General Counsel Jim Haynes, Gonzales and Addingtonalso reaffirmed that the February 2002 memo about humane treatment did not apply to the CIA. [read post]
12 Jul 2009, 7:56 am
Apparently this mystery program was under the tight supervision of Cheney and his legal counsel David Addington, who "had to approve personally every government official who was told about the program. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 10:51 pm
To avoid such potential infirmities, the executive branch will interpret and construe such provisions in the same manner as I have previously stated in regard to similar provisions.With this, David Addington can say he has preserved all possible constitutional objections -- no waiver! [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 9:26 pm
It is difficult to disagree with Goldsmith's argument, empirically. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 12:47 pm
But it's not an accident that, even in the wake of Hamdan, and with the enactment of the MCA, no one in Washington -- not even Dick Cheney and David Addington, nor any member of Congress -- has proposed a law that would permit cruel treatment and torture or that would otherwise place the U.S. in breach of the CAT and the Geneva Conventions. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 12:05 am
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]
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]
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]
17 Jan 2023, 6:10 am
At about the same time, David Addington attempted to abolish my office by drafting an amendment to the president’s executive order. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 4:08 pm
Here's a news story from the Washington Post that day describing the arrival. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 1:48 pm
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]
8 Feb 2008, 1:13 am
But I also think it's a mistake to assume that Bush would have gotten everything he asked for (even in the wake of September 11th, for instance, the idea of amending FISA to authorize the NSA's domestic surveillance was a nonstarter in Congress -- Bush has only succeeded on that score more recently because he broke the law and established a new baseline of what NSA was able to surveille), and, more broadly, I think David Addington is correct that the… [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 8:25 am
Jason Leopold and Mark Ash write at Truthout that Ted Wells' purpose in bringing a handwritten note of Cheney's before the jury while David Addington was on the stand was not only to show Libby was upset about Rove being cleared but not him, but also to show how the Veep scratched out "this pres" from his note to McClellan. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 10:25 am
Of course, you may find this account unpersuasive if you are (like, say, Dick Cheney or David Addington) a strong believer in the "unitary executive. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 2:34 pm
Cheney's chief of staff, David S. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 9:27 am
Addington. [read post]
