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ASsman
11-11-2004, 05:11 PM
Full title didn't fit.....

Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Gonzales Nominated as Attorney General: "Bush Took His Personal Lawyer and Made Him Lawyer to the Nation"

President Bush has nominated White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to replace John Ashcroft as attorney general. We take a look at Gonzales' record with Karen Greenberg New York University School of Law and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI). President Bush has nominated White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to replace John Ashcroft as attorney general.

Several groups have already announced opposition to Gonzales including the Center for Constitutional Rights, People for the American Way and Human Rights First. Gonzales helped pave the legal groundwork that led to the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib. In 2002 he claimed in a memo that that the war on terrorism renders obsolete portions of the Geneva Conventions.

He has been extremely close to Bush over the past decade. As governor of Texas, Bush appointed him to be gubernatorial counsel, Texas Secretary of State and to serve on the Texas Supreme Court. When Bush became president, he chose Gonzales as his presidential counsel. And now Gonzales appears set to become attorney general.

If his nomination is approved by the Senate, Gonzales will become the country's highest ranking Latino official ever. He addressed reporters in the White House after President Bush announced his nomination.

* Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General Nominee speaking in the The Roosevelt Room on November 11, 20044.
* Karen Greenberg, executive director of New York University School of Law's Center for Law and Security. She recently co-edited a three-volume collection that examines the evolution of the Bush Administration's policy of torture in the questioning of prisoners.
* Rep. John Conyers, Congressmember from Detroit. He is the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and one of the authors of a letter to the General Accounting Office calling for an investigation into the November 2 elections.

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(I'm waiting on the transcript)

Also I fear the Latino community will think of him as a "hispanic in the white house". Not that my "people" have already failed me (50% of new Latino voters voted for Bush), but still.

Baraka
11-11-2004, 07:52 PM
This guy is such an asshole (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5197853/site/newsweek):

"But NEWSWEEK has learned that Yoo's August 2002 memo was prompted by CIA questions about what to do with a top Qaeda captive, Abu Zubaydah, who had turned uncooperative. And it was drafted after White House meetings convened by George W. Bush's chief counsel, Alberto Gonzales, along with Defense Department general counsel William Haynes and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's counsel, who discussed specific interrogation techniques, says a source familiar with the discussions. Among the methods they found acceptable: "water-boarding," or dripping water into a wet cloth over a suspect's face, which can feel like drowning; and threatening to bring in more-brutal interrogators from other nations."

ASsman
11-11-2004, 07:54 PM
They should include "White man raping ancestors" in there. Son of a bitch.

infidel
11-12-2004, 10:54 AM
Apparently many conservatives are pissed with Gonzales because as a judge he voted several times pro-choice. On that count guess he could be worse.

yeahwho
11-12-2004, 11:07 AM
Spreading the mandate is going to be miserable.

He was also on Kenneth Starr's team that conducted the investigation of Clinton's impeachment for having an affair. The message is clear: blowjobs bad, torture good.

Amazing. They actually managed to find a bigger sociopath than Ashcroft.

ASsman
11-12-2004, 01:08 PM
The power of CHEESE!

D_Raay
11-13-2004, 01:18 PM
http://rense.com/general59/SATT.HTM

The magazine's investigation found Mr Gonzales "repeatedly failed to apprise the governor of crucial issues in the cases at hand: ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence". The magazine said Mr Gonzales appeared to exclude factors such as "mental illness or incompetence, childhood physical or sexual abuse, remorse, rehabilitation or racial discrimination in jury selection". Mr Bush allowed the executions to proceed in all but one of the 57 cases, including that of Terry Washington, a 33-year-old mentally retarded man with the communications skills of a seven-year-old.

ASsman
11-13-2004, 02:41 PM
And they called it puppy love
Oh I guess they'll never know
How a young heart really feels
And why I love HIM sooooo