Talk:David Addington

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Contents 1 NYT article on Comey 2 ref 3 External links 4 Middle Name?

[edit] NYT article on Comey

I was originally going to replace the original text with the following, to make clear that the NYT article is completely unsourced:

According to an unsourced New York Times report, Addington clashed with former Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey at a 2004 White House meeting on the NSA warrantless surveillance program. The Times reported the story as follows:

"At one testy 2004 White House meeting, when Mr. Comey stated that “no lawyer” would endorse Mr. Yoo’s justification for the N.S.A. program, Mr. Addington demurred, saying he was a lawyer and found it convincing. Mr. Comey shot back: “No good lawyer,” according to someone present."^[1]

On further reflection, however, I decided that if something is unsourced it is not worth citing in the main article text at all (akin to printing rumors). Therefore, I removed the quotation altogether. If a verifiable source can be article, it may be considered for inclusion -- but even then I would hesitate, as I don't think that a petty moment of name-calling is worthy of inclusion. Jkp1187 (talk) 19:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

A great choice to replace Scooter since he has already been suggested as playing a role in the White House failure to cooperate in Congressional probes into pre-war intelligence handling. --JWSchmidt 21:14, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ref

looong article on addington, by Jane Mayer, in the new yorker[1]. Doldrums 11:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I have no strong opinion on this, but another editor with an IP address and no other contributions edited an external link so that it still appears in the article, but no longer functions since the insertion of the text string "inappropriate" into the URL. It had been part of the article for a long time, but I never looked at it until today's edit brought it to my attention. It appears to be a real warning/request letter from Addington personally (back when he was OVP general counsel, and on OVP stationery) to the operator of a parody website, which that person apparently ignored and then put on the website. Does anybody else have any thoughts regarding the merits of its inclusion or exclusion from the Addington article? The current you-can-see-it-but-not-click-it approach seems to be sort of a halfway measure. The edit itself can be viewed by clicking the citation at the end of this sentence.[2] Office of independent counsel 16:51, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Middle Name?

What is his middle name? Jmegill (talk) 21:00, 22 December 2007 (UTC)