CNN Breaking: Cheney chooses two replacements for Libby

[VolcanoJen]

David Addington will be Cheney's chief of staff, while John Hannah will be his National Security Advisor.

I'll post a link when it emerges.

ETA: Link:

Cheney Names Two to Fill Libby's Positions - AP

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney, moving swiftly to replace an indicted aide, on Monday 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.

[LifeDuringWartime]

1. aren't these two involved too?

i swear ive seen those names in connection to this thing.

[senseandsensibility]

2. Hannah

Many thought he'd be indicted, as I recall. Am I right?

[shraby]

3. Hannah was supposed to have flipped

and is giving what he knows.

[Punkingal]

4. Yep...

or some thought he might be singing to Fitz!

[jbonkowski]

6. Hanna is in up to his neck

And Addington wrote memos advocating torture and Presidential power grabs.

The White House obviously thinks they are out of trouble. Nothing resembling "house cleaning" or "fresh blood" going on.

[Oilwellian]

5. 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/2005/1030nj1.htm

[VolcanoJen]

7. Good stuff, Oilwellian!

Thanks for the link.

[kestrel91316]

8. Sounds like the hydra - cut off one head, and two grow in its place.

[mmonk]

9. This definitely causes one's head to hurt.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. David S Addington wrote the "Torture Memo", not the new AG.

He's the one who thinks the Geneva Convention is"Quaint." The man is bad news.

[DistressedAmerican]

11. CIRCLE THE WAGONS!

They know they have serious problems. I am convinced that on all fronts they just want to run out the clock without bing in jail before the end of the term. Criminal bastards.

[Cassandra]

12. Cheney Promotes Individuals Named In Indictment

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/31/cheney-promotes/

"Both Addington and Hannah are named in the indictment. Hannah was intimately involved in the strategy of leaking Plame’s identity. From the indictment:

13. Shortly after publication of the article in The New Republic, LIBBY spoke by telephone with his then Principal Deputy and discussed the article. That official asked LIBBY whether information about Wilson’s trip could be shared with the press to rebut the allegations that the Vice President had sent Wilson. LIBBY responded that there would be complications at the CIA in disclosing that information publicly, and that he could not discuss the matter on a non-secure telephone line.

Addington provided legal counsel to Libby in helping to divulge Plame’s identity.

18. Also on or about July 8, 2003, LIBBY met with the Counsel to the Vice President in an anteroom outside the Vice President’s Office. During their brief conversation, LIBBY asked the Counsel to the Vice President, in sum and substance, what paperwork there would be at the CIA if an employee’s spouse undertook an overseas trip.

So much for a fresh start. "

[Ganja Ninja]

15. Maybe Cheney knows he's on his way out.

No sense dragging down someone that hasn't already been touched by this scandal. He might be gone by Christmas.

[Flying Dream Blues]

13. Since when does a VP need his own personal NS advisor?

These are the things that should make everyone go, "huh?" but they are just part of doing bidness in *'s empire.

[Punkingal]

14. Yesterday on the Hardball special,

Tweety said Addington was part of the same old gang.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Will everyone stop saying now that Raw Story is never wrong?

Remember the canard about Hannah having flipped? Nice promotion for a fucking rat bastard, no?

Raw Story was wrong.