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But at the White House, there was huge pushback from the president's counsel, Alberto Gonzales and the vice president's counsel, David Addington.
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Earlier in the day, former Cheney legal counsel David Addington testified that Libby had denied having anything to do with the leak back in September 2003.
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In fact, David Addington, the vice president's current chief of staff, says his office handed over more than 12, 000 documents as part of the probe, including many handwritten notes from Libby himself.
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Mr. GOLDSMITH: David Addington bit his head off.
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The leading advocates of this view of executive power, unprecedented in its breadth, were David Addington, a former vice-presidential counsel (now chief of staff to the vice-president), John Yoo, a former Justice Department lawyer (now back in academia), and Alberto Gonzales, the former White House counsel, now attorney-general.
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Mr. WILKERSON: What happened was that the secretary of Defense, under the cover of the vice president's office, began to create an environment--and this started from the very beginning when David Addington, the vice president's lawyer, was a staunch advocate of allowing the president in his capacity as commander in chief to deviate from the Geneva Conventions.
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Hayes II, Jay S. Bybee and David S. Addington.
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