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28 Jun 2007, 11:11 am
Can Cheney's chief-of-staff and legal brain, David Addington, twist logic into even more magnificent knots? [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 5:21 pm
One is former Justice Department attorney Patrick Philbin, one of the conservative lawyers that led a revolt against the eavesdropping programs' legal basis and who, according to fellow conservative revolter Jack Goldsmith, faced retaliation from David Addington, Vice President Cheney's lawyer, for his role. [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 9:05 am
When can you go after David Addington's assets because you're angry about what he's been up to in prosecuting the war on terror? [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 6:15 am
As David Addington, who helped established the broad features of today's consensus legal infrastructure during the Bush administration, told Goldsmith, "We're going to push and push and push until some larger force makes us stop. [read post]
28 Nov 2008, 2:03 pm
(There are some who believe that sounded like a good plan for VP Dick Cheney's right-hand man, David Addington!) [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 4:00 am
He speaks to them earlier in his book when he criticizes David Addington, counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, for his secretive management of the Stellar Wind surveillance program. [read post]
31 Mar 2009, 7:50 am
The Spanish complaint names six senior lawyers from the Bush administration: former Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Douglas Feith, the former under secretary of defense for policy. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 10:17 am
Somewhat counterintuitively, though, I think that the increased possibility of prosecution should make it less likely that President Bush will pardon Dick Cheney, David Addington, John Yoo, or himself. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 4:53 am
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]
24 Jun 2008, 3:49 am
Update: Here’s some background on Major and Professor David Frakt.Major David J. [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]
14 Apr 2010, 7:24 pm
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]
12 Jul 2008, 9:19 pm
Also don't miss her profile of Cheney counsel David Addington whom she calls "the legal mind behind the White House’s war on terror. [read post]
19 Jun 2011, 6:25 am
Adler) Glenn Greenwald draws an interesting, if unfavorable, comparison between the actions of lawyers in Department of Justice under President Bush and President Obama.Bush decided to reject the legal conclusions of his top lawyers and ordered the NSA eavesdropping program to continue anyway, even though he had been told it was illegal (like Obama now, Bush pointed to the fact that his own White House counsel (Gonzales), along with Dick Cheney’s top lawyer, David… [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 10:03 am
It's landed on the New York Times bestseller list and sent its author to countless interviews, including appearances last week with Bill Moyers and David Letterman.Despite its grim title, Mayer's book does more than call out villains (a fairly despicable David Addington stars as Public Enemy No. 1, but many others lurk alongside). [read post]
17 May 2007, 4:49 pm
If you were NSA General Counsel, how would you react if the President asked you to engage in conduct that is on its face criminal; if you learned that Jack Goldsmith and John Ashcroft of all officials, concluded that there was no legal way around the statutory restriction and refused to be associated with it; and if the only justification the President offered you for obeying his order was that he was adopting David Addington's, uh, shall we say idiosyncratic, view… [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]
2 Sep 2011, 11:57 pm
An 2006 confidential cable recounts a meeting between Bernier and then-U.S. ambassador David Wilkins. [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 10:11 pm
(I welcome my colleague and co-blogger David Luban to weigh in here.)All of which is to say that I think it's a fairly interesting and difficult question what legal standards OPR should apply when assessing OLC's conduct. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 10:50 pm
Constitutional savants like John Yoo, Dick Cheney, and David Addington would have been vindicated; their vision of the Constitution would no longer be "off-the-wall" but a sound and sensible application of basic principles in time of emergency.What we would have is a "winner's Constitution," a Constitution influenced and shaped by successful ventures judged successful by the American people, leading to new constitutional constructions and… [read post]
