David S. Addington

David S. Addington (born January 22, 1957 in Washington, DC ) is an American lawyer and former government official. He was named Chief of Staff to then Vice President of the United States , Dick Cheney , in late October 2005, replacing Lewis Libby . He held this post until the end of Cheney's tenure in January 2009; he was succeeded by Ron Klain .

Life

Addington graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque , New Mexico in 1974 . He then attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis from the fall of the same year , which he did not graduate. He is a graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (summa cum laude) and a Juris Doctor degree from Duke University School of Law . He was admitted to the bar in 1981.

Addington served as Assistant General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1981 to 1984 . From 1984 to 1987 he was an advisor to various foreign policy committees and the Senate committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal . In 1987 he assisted Ronald Reagan with legislative affairs. From 1989 to 1992 Addington served as Special Assistant to then Secretary of Defense Cheney before being named General Counsel of the Department of Defense by President George Bush in 1992 . In 1993 and 1994, Addington was Human Resources Director for the Senate Intelligence Committee . He then worked for six years from 1995 to 2001 as a lawyer in his own practice for various law firms and the American Trucking Association .

Bush Six

David Addington is one of the six high-ranking members of the GW Bush administration who legally legitimized torture as part of the so-called War on Terror . The Spanish examining magistrate Baltasar Garzón therefore initiated an investigation into these so-called "Bush Six" in 2003 and opened proceedings in 2009.

War crimes convicted by the KLWCC

In May 2012, David Addington joined former US Government Advisor William Haynes II , former US President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney , former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld , former Assistant Attorney General John Yoo and Jay Bybee , as well Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) was unanimously found guilty of war crimes , including torture , and convicted in absentia. The court brought its findings to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague .

Web links

proof

^ The Bush Six to Be Indicted , thedailybeast.com, April 13, 2009
^ The Bush Six , newyorker.com, April 13, 2009
↑ Holt, Bob: Are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were criminals? Malaysian court says 'yes' . NewJerseyNewsroom.com. May 15, 2012. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
↑ Holt, Bob: Are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were criminals? Malaysian court says 'yes' . NewJerseyNewsroom.com. May 15, 2012. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Retrieved on May 16, 2012.
^ Ridley, Yvonne: Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia . Foreign Policy Journal. May 12, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2012.

personal data
SURNAME	Addington, David S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and government official
DATE OF BIRTH	January 22, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Washington, DC

[1] The Bush Six to Be Indicted , thedailybeast.com, April 13, 2009

[2] The Bush Six , newyorker.com, April 13, 2009

[3] Holt, Bob: Are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were criminals? Malaysian court says 'yes' . NewJerseyNewsroom.com. May 15, 2012. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015.

[4] Holt, Bob: Are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were criminals? Malaysian court says 'yes' . NewJerseyNewsroom.com. May 15, 2012. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Retrieved on May 16, 2012.

[5] Ridley, Yvonne: Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia . Foreign Policy Journal. May 12, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2012.