[Mb-civic] A washingtonpost.com article from: michael@intrafi.com

[richard haase]

albert r gonzales is about as close to the anti christ as ive seen since
cheney and rumsfeld
just my opinion
respectfully
trying to be good in the new year

richard haase

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 Mr. Gonzales's Testimony

    ALBERTO R. GONZALES missed an important opportunity yesterday to rectify
his position, and that of President Bush, on the imprisonment and
interrogation of foreign detainees. At the Senate Judiciary Committee's
hearing on his nomination to be attorney general, Mr. Gonzales repeatedly
was offered the chance to repudiate a legal judgment that the president is
empowered to order torture in violation of U.S. law and immunize torturers
from punishment. He declined to do so. He was invited to reject a 2002
ruling made under his direction that the infliction of pain short of serious
physical injury, organ failure or death did not constitute torture. He
answered: "I don't have a disagreement with the conclusions then reached."
Nor did he condemn torture techniques, such as simulated drowning, that were
discussed and approved during meetings in his office. "It is not my job,"
he said, to decide if they were proper. He was prompted to reflect on
whether departing from the Geneva Conventions had been a mistake, in light
of the shocking human rights abuses that have since been reported in Iraq,
Afghanistan and the Guantanamo Bay prison and that continue even now. Mr.
Gonzales demurred. The error, he answered, was not of administration policy
but of "a failure of training and oversight."

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