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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)[reply]

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^ Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen (2007-10-04). "Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-04.

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)[reply]

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

==Duties== "As counsel to the Vice President, Addington's duties involved protecting the legal interests of the Office of the Vice President." I question the accuracy of this. I daresay that Addington's duties were to uphold the laws and support the Constitution of the United States, not to "protect the legal interests of the Office of the Vice-President." Avocats (talk) 03:36, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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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)[reply]

Middle Name?

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

Charges to be filed today?

Scott Horton reported yesterday that charges were to filed today against "The Bush Six". I figure the best way to cover this material would be to a single article that dealt with the charges in detail. I started to prepare a draft here. Comments to it are welcome at its talk page. I figured the articles about the six men should each have a relatively small section that sets the context for the charges for that particular man, and then refers readers to the main article, via {{see}} or {{main}}. Geo Swan (talk) 15:43, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Danny Terrell

The boat down the Vermillion River has no respect for people's property whoever is the captain he is being a dick and hitting and tearing up what I been trying to fix and when they see me he put the thottle in the corner and he hits my bank intentionally the boat is too damn big for vermilion river either he's going to respect my property and others on the river as well or us that live on the river will handle it ourselves so someone needs to do something he is knocking wharf loose a little further in to town and he just don't care it's not his an I'm RT in the curve and he's has plenty of room to pass on the other side he's been choosing too urk our asses and we just about have enough of it so I am asking for a little respect 2600:100D:B16F:5E4F:80B7:55FF:FE02:DE1B (talk) 04:36, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen (2007-10-04). "Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-04.

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