Back to the Future: Speaker Christine Pelosi names David Addington Co-Chair, Office of Congressional Ethics.

July 26, 2018

Press Release: "The Office of Congressional Ethics is essential to an effective ethics process in the House,” said Speaker Pelosi. “This bipartisan board of outside experts who will be charged with reviewing allegations of misconduct and making recommendations to the House Ethics Committee. With the creation of the Office of Congressional Ethics, we have brought a new element of transparency and accountability to the ethics process.”

Addington, who was instrumental in formulating the Bush administration’s strategy for The War on Terror, survived an effort to impeach Mr. Bush for programs that Mr. Addington largely crafted -- torture, illegal wiretapping and the illegal invasion of Iraq -- when Christine Pelosi’s mother famously took impeachment “off of the table”. Mr. Addington and most of his unindicted co-conspirators were never brought to trial after President Obama took office as it was thought that national healing was more important than partisan bickering.

Addington will succeed Porter Goss, appointed by the first woman Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to the Office of Congressional Ethics in 2008. Goss began his career in the CIA assassins’ unit, Operation 40, which was tasked with unauthorized black ops in Cuba while President John F. Kennedy was negotiating with the USSR. He was instrumental in the Iran Contra Florida drug running operation, in tanking the House 9/11 investigation and later gutted the CIA for Dick Cheney.

Below: Porter Goss with sundry CIA assassins, second from the left.



When approached for comment, Speaker Pelosi said “No comment. Ethics are off the table.”




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