Does Scooter's replacement need to be confirmed by the senate?

[kohodog]

The name being floated seems like a really bad guy.

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But Addington was deeply immersed in the White House damage-control campaign to deflect criticism that the Bush administration misrepresented intelligence information to make the case to go to war with Iraq, according to administration and congressional sources.

Moreover, as a pivotal member of the vice president's office, Addington also attended strategy sessions in 2003 on how to discredit Wilson when the former ambassador publicly charged that the Bush administration misled the country in pushing its case for war, according to attorneys in the CIA leak probe.

Further, Addington played a leading role in 2004 on behalf of the Bush administration when it refused to give the Senate Intelligence Committee documents from Libby's office on the alleged misuse of intelligence information regarding Iraq. Because Addington may be in line to succeed Libby, the Intelligence Committee-White House battle over the documents has sparked new interest on Capitol Hill.

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During confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general, it was revealed that Addington helped draft the White House memo that concluded that the Geneva Convention against torture did not apply to prisoners captured in the war on terror. The memo declared that terrorism "renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1030nj1.htm

[goclark]

1. Does he need to be confirmed?

[Greeby]

2. Simple way to find out

Did Irving himself need to be confirmed, if so, what committee, coz I'd be interested to see whos on it

[madeline_con]

3. Addington, a "swell " guy...

Cheney's Lawyer Addington
Penned Key Torture Memo
by Jeffrey Steinberg

David Addington, the General Counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, was the actual author of one of the now-infamous White House "torture memos" that claimed for President Bush the authority to violate the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, in the so-called "war on terrorism." The immediate result of this Hitlerian document was the scenes of inhuman torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, and the as-yet untold tales of similar torture at other secret prison locations in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in other countries around the world.

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3128addington_memo.html


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David S. Addington actively participated in the following events:
January 21, 2002 Torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere

White House lawyers visit Guantanamo Bay. On the flight back, Alberto Gonzales agrees with David Addington that all Guantanamo detainees should be designated eligible for trial by military commission under the president's November 13 Military Order (see January 20, 2002).
People and organizations involved: Alberto R. Gonzales, David S. Addington

'Passive' participant in the following events:
Torture, rendition, and other abuses against captives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere - November 13, 2001 - President Bush issues a 3- ...

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-3158

[Orangepeel]

4. No. cabinet members need to be confirmed, but staff don't n/t

[0007]

5. A saliva test is a must.....

and any good veterinarian will do. At the time he can give junior a distemper shot.

Here one;

[kestrel91316]

7. I am officially volunteering to "give Junior a distemper shot", lol,

or any other shot I can think of that will help end this long national nightmare.

"The Big Blue Needle" comes to mind.................

Somebody else would have to figure out the touchy logistics, lol.

[Kurt Remarque]

6. nope, dick could appoint howdy dooty