Former Dick Cheney aide David Addington is headed to the conservative Heritage foundation. Addington will serve, according to the Daily Caller as vice president for domestic and economic policy studies — but he’s most famous for advocating vast Presidential powers. Under Cheney, he allegedly helped to shape an infamous Justice Department memo sanctioning torture in some cases, and was a key architect of the previous administration’s warrantless surveillance programAddington served as Cheney’s counsel, and as his chief or staff. Like his old boss, he kept a notoriously low profile, though wielded a great deal of power, and was contemptuous of those in the media and on the Hill who sought to check that power.
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