Of Secrets and Monsters: 'Praising' Alberto Gonzalez

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Of Secrets and Monsters: Praising Alberto Gonzalez

January 22 2007
Counterbias.com
by John Calvin Jones


All praises be to Alberto Gonzales. The Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, is saving America from the terrorists, from Congress, and from a prying public, one stonewall at a time.
On January 18, 2007, as he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales explained that he would not authorize the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court to divulge any information about warrant applications or judicial authorizations for domestic spying. Gonzales also defended the extraordinary rendition program. As we all know, better safe and tortured than sorry.

While Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) castigated Gonzales for the decision of the Bush administration to send Maher Arar, a Syrian-born, Canadian citizen, to Syria, where Arar was tortured, Gonzales would not apologize for his government doing everything to save the American people from the “soon to fall into the terrorist camp” crowd. (Isn’t that what innocent people do after they are tortured?)

But we should look at things in perspective: so what if Arar was cleared by the Canadian government, which apologized for participating in the decision to allow Arar’s arrest and hand-over to Syria? Syria is an ally in the war on terror ... isn't it? Let’s see, torturing an innocent man at the behest of the Bush administration versus helping Hezbollah … hmm, I guess it was right to trust them. I’ll bet that Bush and company were trying to bring the Syrians into the family of nations, the Coalition of the Willing. Did they pass or fail?

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