Bush Taps Alberto Gonzalez For AG

[RuleofLaw]

"Currently Serves As White House Counsel

Nov 10, 2004 11:53 am US/Eastern
WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush has chosen White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, a Texas confidant and one of the most prominent Hispanics in the administration, to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft, sources close to the White House said Wednesday.

Ashcroft announced his resignation on Tuesday, along with Commerce Secretary Don Evans, a Texas friend of the president's."

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"For instance, Gonzales publicly defended the administration's policy -- essentially repudiated by the Supreme Court and now being fought out in the lower courts -- of detaining certain terrorism suspects for extended periods without access to lawyers or courts.

He also wrote a controversial February 2002 memo in which Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture law and international treaties providing protections to prisoners of war. That position drew fire from human rights groups, which said it helped led to the type of abuses uncovered in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal."

http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/topstories_story_315115603.html

If the democrat don't oppose this nomination vigorously, I have lost all respect for them!

[quiet.american]

1. Figured it would be Gonzales

And you know what... things are in such a state I bet he'll breeze through as easily as Porter Goss did.

[ewagner]

2. "In Your Face"

So this is how the shrub reaches out to Democrats?

[Moderator]

3. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x976240

[fryguy]

4. great - Mr. Torture memos is going to be head law officer

This should be a fun four years chock-full of indefinite detentions and human rights abuses right here at home.....