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WASHINGTON - The White House refused Thursday to provide senators additional documents on attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales' involvement in the decision to allow aggressive interrogations of terrorism detainees, setting up a confrontation with Democrats looking into his role in the now-repudiated policies.
Gonzales, who served as President Bush (news - web sites)'s White House counsel, is pledging to abide by treaties that ban torture of prisoners, if he is confirmed by the Senate as the first Hispanic attorney general. He will answer questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) about his role in Bush's 2002 decision that the president had the authority to bypass international anti-torture accords.

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This is a resolute presidency.

"We resolve to lie and deceive, and to withhold any and all information from the Congress, the courts, and from the American electorate whereven and whenever convenient."

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In defense of Judge Gonzales

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And men who beat their wives are (once apprehended) are always contrite and say it will never happen again.

Until it does.

It is just patently ridiculous that this is what passes for meaningful discourse from this administration (which is then processed and delivered for the consumption of an ignorant, gullible electorate by those intrepid reporters in the MSM). The headline in the NYT for the AP article above (before they revised it) was:

Gonzales Promises Non-Torture Policy

How noble of him. Evil or Very Mad

(BTW, you can see the Gonzales confirmation hearings right now on C-Span.)

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McGentrix wrote:

In defense of Judge Gonzales

A dozen retired generals and admirals - including former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John M. Shalikashvili - said in a letter released at a news conference called by Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) that they were "deeply concerned" about the Gonzales nomination and urged Senators to question him closely about his knowledge of and views on torture by US personnel:

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During his tenure as White House Counsel, Mr. Gonzales appears to have played a significant role in shaping U.S. detention and interrogation operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and elsewhere. Today, it is clear that these operations have fostered greater animosity toward the United States, undermined our intelligence gathering efforts, and added to the risks facing our troops serving around the world. Before Mr. Gonzales assumes the position of Attorney General, it is critical to understand whether he intends to adhere to the positions he adopted as White House Counsel, or chart a revised course more consistent with fulfilling our nation's complex security interests, and maintaining a military that operates within the rule of law.

Full text (PDF-file)

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