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...with American Wife. It is no small astonishment that Sittenfeld's portrait of the President and his circle made Mayer's horror story more plausible for me: suddenly you understand how George W. Bush could abdicate his authority and allow Dick Cheney and his alarming chief of staff, David Addington, to abandon the Geneva Conventions and engage in the most gruesome forms of torture. You can easily see Charlie Blackwell - whose (inaccurate) notion of the efficacy of torture would have been shaped by Hollywood - passing off the tough and the ugly jobs to his number...
...There was the smug David Addington, Dick Cheney’s former legal counsel, current chief of staff, and chief architect of the “New Paradigm” that has framed the country’s current approach to counter-terrorism. By his side sat the unctuous John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer whose cherubic grin belies a grim view of human nature...
...came before the U.S. backed away from the treaty. In essence it was a double power grab: Bush wanted the right to unilaterally leave a treaty - and still order state courts to comply with obligations while the treaty was in effect. The move was supported by, among others, David Addington, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, a proponent of expanded presidential powers...
Howard Lederer, a two-time World Poker Tour champion, and Crandell Addington, one of the founders of the World Series of Poker, told the audience that poker—which is illegal in several states, including Texas—should be allowed to emerge from its backroom days...
...Addington acknowledged that the game still faces many lingering negative perceptions. When he played poker in Texas in the 1960s, Addington often brought weapons to the game because sheriffs cracked down on games, he said...