David Addington, the vice-president’s chief of staff, is often called the legal mind behind the Bush administration’s justification of expanded executive powers. Now Addington has been subpoenaed by a House judiciary subcommittee to speak about his role in legal decisions that led to the torture of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

The New York Times’ Scott Shane reports that the subcommittee has already gotten agreements from John Ashcroft, Douglas Feith and John Yoo to testify publicly. The former Bush administration officials played a central role in determining what, if any, legal boundaries existed in the CIA and Pentagon’s questioning of terror suspects.  Read Shane here. MB

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