Cheney Names Two to Fill Libby's Positions (Addington & Hannah)

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5382217,00.html

Cheney Names Two to Fill Libby's Positions

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney, moving swiftly to replace an indicted aide, named attorney David Addington as his chief of staff and John Hannah as his national security adviser.

Both positions had been filled by I. Lewis Libby, who resigned Friday when he was indicted on perjury and other charges in a 22-month investigation of the unmasking of an undercover CIA officer.

Addington has been Cheney's counsel and Hannah has been his deputy national security adviser.

[Stephanie]

1. Wow!

Both compromised by traitorgate!

[Lindsay]

Face it - there's nobody either Bush or Cheney can

appoint who's not compromised in some way. It's not a government, it's a crime family.

[TomInTib]

2. The foxes are now in the henhouse nt

[montanacowboy]

3. I thought Hannah crapped all over Cheney?

nt

[napi21]

6. Yea, check this out on Hannah.

Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.

According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were the two Cheney employees. "We believe that Hannah was the major player in this," one federal law-enforcement officer said. Calls to the vice president's office were not returned, nor did Hannah and Libby return calls.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0205-12.htm

Either the Common Dreams report is wrong, or Cheney is an idiot!!!

[katty]

16. Hannah?! gawd, no difference, could be worse

[bluedog]

4. This Addington: Torture Memo?

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

[NI4NI]

19. David Addington

This guy looks like a real piece of work. Check out what Dana
Milbank of the Washington Post has reported about him.
The guy is all about keeping secrets and unlimited
presidential power. 

[UpInArms]

5. these people are so corrupt that they cannot reach

outside of the inner circle at this point. They have to continue circling their wagons until the circle is so small that it will only contain the most corrupt of the corrupt.

[meganmonkey]

7. Oh good lord, I didn't know Hannah was getting picked for Nat.Sec. advisor

to Cheney

:puke: :hurts: :puke:

What the fuck is wrong with these people? At least pick people we've never heard of, but those who are essentially under suspicion in this shitstorm?!?

:wtf:

How am I possibly this surprised and disgusted? I didn't know they could surprise and disgust me any further!

:mad:

[yellowcanine]

8. Daryl Hannah? I didn't even know Cheney knew her. Lynne must be pissed.

I would think it would be a risk, given his crashcart status.

[Midlodemocrat]

9. Breaking: Cheney Appoints Addington

Link here:

http://abcnews.go.com/

[Oilwellian]

10. More on Addington

He stinks to high heaven..

(snip)
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.

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/...

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Yes he does.

You weren't expecting someone who doesn't stink, were you?

The Bush cabal makes me sick.

[expatriot]

12. duplicate post.... just a couple stories down in the LBN forum is

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1889872

[SteppingRazor]

13. Makes sense. Addington has been a Cheney lackey since Bush I...

From 1989 to 1992, Addington was special assistant to the secretary of defense, and then deputy secretary of defense. The secretary of defense during Bush I was, of course, Cheney.

Before that, he was involved in the Reagan administration.

[Oilwellian]

14. More on Addington

(snip)
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.

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005 /...

[katty]

15. Addington is snake-search his bio-nothing will change

[Peter Frank]

17. This Character is Unbelievable...

(snip)
"Where there has been controversy over the past four years, there has often been Addington. He was a principal author of the White House memo justifying torture of terrorism suspects. He was a prime advocate of arguments supporting the holding of terrorism suspects without access to courts.

Addington also led the fight with Congress and environmentalists over access to information about corporations that advised the White House on energy policy? Colleagues say Addington stands out for his devotion to secrecy in an administration noted for its confidentiality."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22665-2004Oct10?language=printer

[Peter Frank]

18. The Department of Torture...

(snip)
...Alberto Gonzales, put his name on the infamous Jan 25, 2002 memo, referring to the Geneva convention as "quaint." But what many people do not realize is that the heart of that reprehensible legal pretzel job was drafted by David Addington...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_thepen_051031_the_department_of_to.htm

[countingbluecars]

20. So Libby was such a busy man

that Cheney had to hire two men to do his job. I guess that fits in with the memory lapse defense. He was such a busy, busy man. He didn't lie, he just forgot. Riiiight.

[Wordie]

21. Cheyney unrepentant, appoints John Hannah as Nat'l Security Affairs Asst.

<snip>
For Immediate Release
Office of the Vice President
October 31, 2005

Personnel Announcement

The Vice President today appointed David S. Addington of Virginia to be the chief of staff to the Vice President. The Vice President also appointed John P. Hannah of the District of Columbia as the Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.

Mr. Hannah has served on the national security staff in the Office of the Vice President since March 2001 and is currently the Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs. In prior Federal service, Mr. Hannah served at the Department of State. In the private sector, Mr. Hannah practiced law in Washington, D.C. and served as a senior official of a Washington-based foreign policy research organization. Mr. Hannah is a graduate of Duke University and the Yale Law School.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051031-2.html

But don't forget that Hannah was the one who was getting the bad intel from Chalabi's people of the Iraqi National Congress (INC)!
See this earlier MSNBC report: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3660169/
<snip>
For months, Cheney’s office has denied that the veep bypassed U.S. intelligence agencies to get intel reports from the INC. But a June 2002 memo written by INC lobbyist Entifadh Qunbar to a U.S. Senate committee lists John Hannah, a senior national-security aide on Cheney’s staff, as one of two “U.S. governmental recipients” for reports generated by an intelligence program being run by the INC and which was then being funded by the State Department. Under the program, “defectors, reports and raw intelligence are cultivated and analyzed”; the info was then reported to, among others, “appropriate governmental, non-governmental and international agencies.” The memo not only describes Cheney aide Hannah as a “principal point of contact” for the program, it even provides his direct White House telephone number. The only other U.S. official named as directly receiving the INC intel is William Luti, a former military adviser to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who, after working on Cheney’s staff early in the Bush administration, shifted to the Pentagon, where he oversaw a secretive Iraq war-planning unit called the Office of Special Plans.

[rodeodance]

22. i never expected cheney to repent.

[Wordie]

23. Well, "showing unbelievable gall" just wouldn't fit...eom

[alcibiades_mystery]

24. I though Hannah had "flipped." So said "Raw Story" anyway

Tell me again, Raw Story supporters, about how they're never wrong?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[laylah]

25. What a

bottom feeding POS that poor excuse for a human being is :mad:

Jenn

[Wordie]

26. "Circling the wagons," is what Josh Marshall calls it (talkingpoints memo)

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/