BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... call for Yoo's disbarment? Let's get on with it. This guy still has a job as a professor. He and David Addington 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.
Andy Worthington (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... charge of the United States at that particular time — essentially, Dick Cheney , his legal counsel David Addington, 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...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... Carta Modernization Rules Act of 1824 clause 5.432.3.Y, as affirmed in 2005 Supreme Court case David Addington vs. This Case Never Happened Because David Addington 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...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... most political administration in modern times. That's also an insult to Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, David Addington, 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,...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... Warfield Theater . At the moment, they're talking to two other property owners on the block (ahem, David Addington'). 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...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... 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...
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... order were instrumental in its creation, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, his lawyer David Addington, 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...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... order were instrumental in its creation, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, his lawyer David Addington, 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 .
The Public Record (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... order were instrumental in its creation, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, his lawyer David Addington, 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...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... But these opinions were heavily ghostwritten by John Yoo, with assistance from Cheney’s counsel, David Addington. (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...
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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, David Addington, said...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... the thumbs up, construction's planned for spring 2010, for occupancy to begin in summer 2012 . David Addington '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]
WireTap Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... just been blithly naive about the John Brown-esque intentions of wonderful people like developer David Addington, 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!...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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 David Addington, who'll now have to make do with no...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... decades of City Hall plans haven't done is ridiculous."We always thought it would be very close," David Addington, owner of the Warfield Building, who's been pushing Prop. D said Tuesday night.
