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...poker is a bad thing would be convinced just by seeing and listening to these kids talk,” said Nesson. Woods said that the GPSTS would host several events open to the Harvard community over the semester. A panel discussion with poker champions Howard Lederer and Crandell Addington is expected to be held on Oct. 15. The group plans to hold a discussion on the dispute over online poker and a day-long conference on the educational value of poker in November. The GPSTS also plans to launch a National Collegiate Poker Tournament in March...
...Along with Rumsfeld, Gonzales and Tenet, the other defendants in the case are Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone; former assistant attorney general Jay Bybee; former deputy assisant attorney general John Yoo; General Counsel for the Department of Defense William James Haynes II; and David S. Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Senior military officers named in the filing are General Ricardo Sanchez, the former top Army official in Iraq; Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of Guantanamo; senior Iraq commander, Major General Walter Wojdakowski; and Col. Thomas Pappas, the one-time head of military intelligence...
Cheney: I looked at it very seriously, back in '94, '96 time frame, and I went out on the '94 election cycle, and I set up a PAC. Dave Addington ran the political action committee for me. We raised a bunch of money, and I campaigned all over the country that year helping with the '94 effort. And then -- with the understanding that I'd sit down at the end of that period of time, which I did -- Christmas, that year, and decide whether or not I really wanted to run myself, and I concluded I did not, that...
After that final nudge from the President Wednesday morning, Cheney retreated to his office with his longtime adviser Mary Matalin, chief of staff David Addington, daughter Liz and, later, his press secretary, Lea Anne McBride, to prepare. Matalin and McBride laid out all the questions being raised about the incident. Cheney just soaked it in "like a sponge," Matalin said, but not only did he not rehearse his answers, he also gave no indication of how he would respond. Matalin heard the full version of the accident only when he taped the interview...
...House. Determined to maintain tight control, Libby created a bottleneck beneath Cheney by trying to keep "all sensitive or politically interesting information to himself," a former Bush aide says. That sometimes cut Cheney off from hearing additional points of view even from his own aides. Libby's successor, David Addington, was viewed as so unyielding and difficult when he was the Vice President's counsel that he has poor relations with many West Wing aides, who are referred to collectively in Cheneyland as "across the street." Some members of the President's staff have never met their counterparts in Cheneyland...