In Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney has promoted two members of his staff to replace Lewis “Scooter” Libby who resigned last week after being indicted on 5 counts in the CIA leak investigation. Libby is facing up to 30 years in jail for obstruction of justice, perjury to a grand jury and making false statements to FBI agents. Cheney picked David Addington to serve as his chief of staff and John Hannah to take over as assistant to the vice president for national security affairs. Both have played key roles in the so-called war on terrorism and the invasion of Iraq. Three years ago Addington wrote a memo that asserted the war on terrorism renders obsolete the Geneva Convention’s limitations on questioning detainees. Meanwhile the Knight Ridder news agency reports John Hannah was the main White House contact for the Iraqi National Congress ahead of the Iraq invasion. The group of Iraqi exiles fed Hannah misinformation about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction that was used to justify the war.