David Addington joins Heritage executive team as deputy chief operating officer, senior VP
The Heritage Foundation has announced that David Addington, Dick Cheney’s former counsel and chief of staff, has become the think tank’s senior vice president and deputy chief operating officer.
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Addington, who joined Heritage as vice president for domestic and economic policy studies in August 2010, will be responsible for the marketing, communications, government studies and external relations departments. He will also manage Heritage’s strategic operations directors.
Before his time in Cheney’s office, Addington held senior positions at the CIA, the Department of Defense and the White House, as well as in the legislative branch.
“Heritage has grown tremendously over our first 40 years, and has developed a reputation for both innovative policy development and innovative marketing,” Feulner said in a statement. “With these new organizational arrangements — and the people filling these positions — we have every confidence that Heritage will continue providing effective conservative leadership on public policy issues for decades ahead.”
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n December 18th, Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State, joined other prominent Washington figures at FedEx Field, the Redskins’ stadium, in a skybox belonging to the team’s owner. During the game, between the Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, Powell spoke of a recent report in the Times which revealed that President Bush, in his pursuit of terrorists, had secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on American citizens without first obtaining a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, as required by federal law. This requirement, which was instituted by Congress in 1978, after the Watergate scandal, was designed to protect civil liberties and curb abuses of executive power, such as Nixon’s secret monitoring of political opponents and the F.B.I.’s eavesdropping on Martin Luther King, Jr. Nixon had claimed that as President he had the “inherent authority” to spy on people his Administration deemed enemies, such as the anti-Vietnam War activist Daniel Ellsberg. Both Nixon and the institution of the Presidency had paid a high price for this assumption. But, according to the Times, since 2002 the legal checks that Congress constructed to insure that no President would repeat Nixon’s actions had been secretly ignored.
According to someone who knows Powell, his comment about the article was terse. “It’s Addington,” he said. “He doesn’t care about the Constitution.” Powell was referring to David S. Addington, Vice-President Cheney’s chief of staff and his longtime principal legal adviser. Powell’s office says that he does not recall making the statement. But his former top aide, Lawrence Wilkerson, confirms that he and Powell shared this opinion of Addington.
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