addington. in order to understand who david addington is, look back only as far as this former president, george w. bush. during his eight years in office president bush set knew and really quite radical standards for the use of executive power. president bush's view of his office is derived from something called the unitary theory of the executive, which basically amounts to i am the boss. and you're just congress or the courts or nobodys. same dif. the chief enforcer of the unitary executive theory in the george w. bush administration was of course the vice president, dick cheney. and the chief enforcer of the unitary executive theory for dick cheney was his top lawyer and later his chief of staff, david addington. whenever vice president cheney sought to expand the unreviewable power of the oval office, david addington was right there with him, and often leading the way. mr. addington wrote that it was okay for the u.s. to torture people suspected of terrorism. he argued that president bush could lock up terrorism suspects without charges or trials. it was his opinion that the