... call for Yoo's disbarment? Let's get on with it. This guy still has a job as a professor. He and DavidAddington ought to be testifying against Dick Cheney and George Bush in a court of law. Or, is it okay to torture people now? Is that who we are? We're just going to let it go? Here in America, we can paper over anything.
... charge of the United States at that particular time — essentially, Dick Cheney , his legal counsel DavidAddington, and a cabal of close advisors — to transform American into a Torture Nation led by an unaccountable President, and also allowed them to realize their long-cherished dream of toppling Saddam Hussein. I have often thought that both camps have much in common when it comes...
... Carta Modernization Rules Act of 1824 clause 5.432.3.Y, as affirmed in 2005 Supreme Court case DavidAddington vs. This Case Never Happened Because DavidAddington Holds The Legal Opinion That The Supreme Court Doesn’t Exist And Can Fuck Off , and endorsed by Jesus.” It’s amazing how efficiently Republicans get their shit together when there’s an opportunity on the horizon...
... most political administration in modern times. That's also an insult to Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, DavidAddington, Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers, and the rest of the people in the Bush administration who worked so tirelessly to try to secure a permanent Republican majority. How Mr. Kelley could ignore their work just to take a cheap shot at President Obama is unconscionable. But seriously,...
... Warfield Theater . At the moment, they're talking to two other property owners on the block (ahem, DavidAddington'). But back to CityPlace: early rumblings reveal a potential death knell in concern over the project's two levels of underground parking . Granted, the total's about a quarter of typical suburban big-box parking, but pedestrian advocates point to nearby Westfield as an...
... sharp contrast to the internal vow of key stakeholders in Barack Obama's campaign, as reported in David Plouffe's insider account Audacity to Win--whom he says vowed not to allow "@#%holes" and leaks and the blame game to disrupt any aspect of their campaign. When problems arose or mistakes were made, the president and his team were forthright and dealt with each other directly...
... order were instrumental in its creation, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, his lawyer DavidAddington, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a young, and then unknown, lawyer inside the Justice Department named John Yoo. The order created a separate track of justice for any foreign citizen picked up on a global battlefield...
... order were instrumental in its creation, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, his lawyer DavidAddington, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a young, and then unknown, lawyer inside the Justice Department named John Yoo . The first group of detainees arrived at Gitmo on January 11, 2002 .
... order were instrumental in its creation, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, his lawyer DavidAddington, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a young, and then unknown, lawyer inside the Justice Department named John Yoo . The order created a separate track of justice for any foreign citizen picked up on a global battlefield...
... But these opinions were heavily ghostwritten by John Yoo, with assistance from Cheney’s counsel, DavidAddington. (Addington’s role was a matter of some caviling, as noted by Marcy Wheeler last May.) Levin famously critiqued a number of the conclusions in the Yoo/Bybee memos regarding torture, but as David Cole pointed out in his recently published book, The Torture...
Today in billboard news: Yesterday, San Francisco voters nixed a plan to create a sign district in a "grimy" area around Market Street, a move which would have allowed billboards, including digital boards (the money was intended to fund arts and youth programs), reports the AP . And here's more via the SF Examiner : "The measure’s main backer, DavidAddington, said...
... the thumbs up, construction's planned for spring 2010, for occupancy to begin in summer 2012 . DavidAddington 's going to be so excited. · CityPlace [Website] · Remember CityPlace? It's Still Coming to Market Street [Curbed SF] · New Mall Could Do What Board of Supes Couldn't [Curbed SF] · Storefronting: Mid-Market Retail Renderings Revealed [Curbed SF]
... just been blithly naive about the John Brown-esque intentions of wonderful people like developer DavidAddington, who's sponsoring the bill, and recently told the New York Times : "We're just looking for something to make it look like an arts and theater district," he said. "We want to make people feel safe, and that in turn gives retail a boost." Me too, Mr. Addington!...
Status quo rules the day: the signy district of Mid-Market yore will remain just that, as voters yesterday spiked Prop D by a sizeable 8.18 percent margin . Fifty-four percent voted no on the measure to allow signage on buildings between 5th and 7th . "We always thought it would be very close," said Warfield owner and Prop D booster DavidAddington, who'll now have to make do with no...
... decades of City Hall plans haven't done is ridiculous."We always thought it would be very close," DavidAddington, owner of the Warfield Building, who's been pushing Prop. D said Tuesday night.