Alberto Gonzales' Big Day
Mr. Gonzales has a Big Day today. The Senate is going to ask him all kinds of "sharp and embarrassing questions" about his previous experience in the Office of the Legal Council and as an attorney in Texas when George Bush was Governor.
His record proves to me that his loyalty to George Bush is way more important than upholding the law, given the fact that he went looking for a way to rationalize torture and get around the Geneva Conventions. You can read the memo here.
And in Texas, he knowingly gave then Gov. George Bush half-assed information about a man on death row when he was requested to recommend whether clemency or reprieve would be granted.
Left out of Gonzales's summary was any mention of a 1986 investigation by the Texas attorney general's office that concluded that Lucas had not killed the woman, and that he had falsely confessed to numerous killings in an effort to undermine the veracity of his confessions to the crimes he did commit.
The LA Times writes a nice article summing up just how incompetent this man is, and what we can expect from the hearings today.
Unfortunately, they conclude that Gonzales probably will be confirmed, but that Democrats hope to do enough damage during the hearings that he can kiss goodbye any dream of being on the Supreme Court.
Our justice system relies on an attorney general willing to defend civil liberties as ardently as he pursues criminals and terrorists. That person must be someone who respects both the power and the limits of law.
Last night, Gonzales did say that he would abide by the Geneva Conventions, but how can you trust a man like that, after all he's done. If Georgie tells him to, he will. If Georgie tells him not to, he won't. If Georgie tells him to jump off a cliff, he will.
His record proves to me that his loyalty to George Bush is way more important than upholding the law, given the fact that he went looking for a way to rationalize torture and get around the Geneva Conventions. You can read the memo here.
And in Texas, he knowingly gave then Gov. George Bush half-assed information about a man on death row when he was requested to recommend whether clemency or reprieve would be granted.
Left out of Gonzales's summary was any mention of a 1986 investigation by the Texas attorney general's office that concluded that Lucas had not killed the woman, and that he had falsely confessed to numerous killings in an effort to undermine the veracity of his confessions to the crimes he did commit.
The LA Times writes a nice article summing up just how incompetent this man is, and what we can expect from the hearings today.
Unfortunately, they conclude that Gonzales probably will be confirmed, but that Democrats hope to do enough damage during the hearings that he can kiss goodbye any dream of being on the Supreme Court.
Our justice system relies on an attorney general willing to defend civil liberties as ardently as he pursues criminals and terrorists. That person must be someone who respects both the power and the limits of law.
Last night, Gonzales did say that he would abide by the Geneva Conventions, but how can you trust a man like that, after all he's done. If Georgie tells him to, he will. If Georgie tells him not to, he won't. If Georgie tells him to jump off a cliff, he will.
posted by cookie christine @ 1/06/2005
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