Evil bastards watch

Replacing Scooter Libby as Snarl's chief of staff will be David S. Addington, the vice president's counsel.

The task of summarizing the competing points of view in a draft letter to the president was seized initially by Addington. A memo he wrote and signed with Gonzales's name -- and knowledge -- was circulated to various departments, several sources said. A version of this draft, dated Jan. 25, 2002, was subsequently leaked. It included the eye-catching assertion that a 'new paradigm' of a war on terrorism 'renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners.'

A.k.a. the torture memo. The cream really rises in this administration, no?