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“The analysis is flawed—in fact, fatally flawed. No lawyer reading that could reasonably rely on it,” Comey said, his hand sweeping across the table dismissively.
Cheney’s counsel, the famously aggressive David Addington, standing in the back of the room, spoke up: “Well, I’m a lawyer,” he snapped, “and I did.”
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Comey shot back, “No good lawyer.”
— An account of James Comey talking some brutal legal smack in the W. years, as recounted in a Politico article yesterday. For those keeping track, Addington is now general counsel of the National Federation of Independent Business where he, luckily, has no responsibility for terrorist surveillance.