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11/10 Bush to appoint Alberto Gonzalez as AG:
http://csua.org/u/9w8 (Yahoo News)
\_ I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
\_obNOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
\_ Heh!
"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."
[This article is also wrong. It's not "certain terror suspects";
Dubya claimed the right to detain any person, citizen or not,
indefinitely, he deemed a threat to national security.]
\_ I think he's a lot less evil than Ashcroft. Obviously
I dissagree with the Administrtions detainee policy, but
I spent some time researching Gonzales yesterday when his
name was being mentioned as a possible AG, and he really
seems much more balanced than Ashcroft. He seems to make
single issue pressure groups on both the left and the right
nervous, which is a good thing for a supreme court judge to
do (and let's face it that's where this is heading.) In contrast,
I think Ashcroft was both incopetent and an actually evil man.
\_ Can you give me a good URL which describes just how bad
Ashcroft is? It seems to me that the Patriot Act, although
giving the government just too many powers, has not been
seriously abused, yet, and that Ashcroft has just been
the convenient pincushion for all the Bush-haters. Mainly,
I want actions which show his incompetence and evilness,
not attitudes. -liberal
\_ Suspension of Habeas Corpus. That should be sufficient.
\_ Not to disagree, but do you also think Gonzalez (and
even Dubya) are MORE responsible than Ashcroft for
habeas corpus suspensions?
\_ There was a great segment on CSPAN to this effect a
week or so ago.
\_ Powell: "Who's the new AG, Don?"
Rumsfeld: "AG."
Powell: "Yeah, AG."
Rumsfeld: "Yeah."
Powell: "......"
Powell: "So, who is he?"
Rumsfeld: "Who's who?"
Powell: "The new AG."
Rumsfeld: "Like I said, AG."
Powell: "Yeah, AG. Who's he?"
Rumsfeld: "The new AG."
Powell: "Yeah, the new AG. How many times do I have to ask?"
Rumsfeld: "I just told you. AG, Powell."
Powell: "Don't call me pal. I'm no pal. Just answer my question."
Rumsfeld: "Alright. It's AG, Colin".
Powell: "How dare you call me asshole? You're fired."
\_ Our Secretary of State is Colon Powell:
http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/forumpost1.shtml?pid=186905 |
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| csua.org/u/9w8 -> story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041110/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_cabinet_19 President Bush's Cabinet (White House) Ashcroft announced his resignation on Tuesday, along with Commerce Secret ary Don Evans, a Texas friend of the president's. web sites), anoth er figure being closely watched for signs of whether he will stay or go. Powell has been largely noncommital when asked about his plans. Gonzales, 49, has long been rumored as a leading candidate for a Supreme Court vacancy if one develops. Speculation increased after Chief Justice William H Rehnquist announced he has thyroid cancer. Gonzales' career has been linked with Bush for at least a decade, serving as general counsel when Bush was governor of Texas, and then as secreta ry of state and as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court. Gonzales has been at the center of developing Bush's positions on balanci ng civil liberties with waging the war on terrorism opening the White House counsel to the same line of criticism that has dogged Ashcroft. For instance, Gonzales publicly defended the administration's policy es sentially repudiated by the Supreme Court and now being fought out in th e lower courts of detaining certain terrorism suspects for extended pe riods without access to lawyers or courts. He also wrote a controversial February 2002 memo in which Bush claimed th e right to waive anti-torture law and international treaties providing p rotections to prisoners of war. That position drew fire from human right s groups, which said it helped led to the type of abuses uncovered in th e Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Some conservatives also have quietly questioned Gonzales' credentials on core social issues. And he once was a partner in a Houston law firm whic h represented the scandal-ridden energy giant Enron. The informati on contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewr itten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associ ated Press. |
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