DNC: Time for Gonzales to Go

[demobabe]

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

DNC Press: Time for Gonzales to Go

Washington, DC - Calls for the resignation of Alberto Gonzales, including some from Republican lawmakers, continue to mount over the scandal around the politically motivated firings of several U.S. Attorneys. As the scandal continues to widen, it's clear that while Alberto Gonzales must go, he is just the tip of the iceberg, as other senior Bush aides including Karl Rove have also been implicated. Despite his earlier assertions that he was in no way involved in the scandal, an e-mail, dated Jan. 9, 2005, said Gonzales "discussed the matter while he was still White House counsel." Another e-mail indicated that Karl Rove was also "involved in discussions about firing the prosecutors as early as Jan. 6, 2005."

This is hardly the first time that Gonzales has exhibited poor judgment or placed politics ahead of justice. Gonzales' entire career in the Bush Administration is checkered by bad decisions, concealing information from Congress and the public and putting the political interests of George Bush and Dick Cheney ahead of his responsibilities to justice and the rule of law. Here is a sampling of Gonzales' biggest missteps:

Gonzales Advised U.S. to Ignore the Geneva Convention. White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales wrote a memo in January 2002 to President Bush explaining how to sidestep the Geneva Conventions in regards to Al Qaeda prisoners. The memo read "In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions." According to Gonzales, "dropping Geneva would allow the president to ‘preserve his flexibility' in the war on terror."

Gonzales Allowed Torture of Prisoners. White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales chaired meetings on the issue of whether to allow torture of foreign prisoners, which included detailed descriptions of interrogation techniques such as "waterboarding," a tactic intended to make detainees feel as if they are drowning. He raised no objections and, without consulting military and State Department experts in the laws of torture and war, approved an August 2002 memo that gave CIA interrogators the legal blessings they sought.

Gonzales Restricted Congressional Review of Documents on Controversial Judicial Nominee. Gonzales also made the decision to assert executive privilege and not to provide Senators with copies of Miguel Estrada's working papers from the Office of Solicitor General when the Senators requested the documents while considering Estrada's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Gonzales Tried to Restrict Public Information About Cheney's Energy Task Force. Gonzales has also been a fierce defender of presidential secrecy, helping to put prior presidential records and Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force records out of reach.

Much more here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/204

[hippiechick]

1. ok, groovy ... but at WHO's request did Gonzo do all this ?

:shrug: Jus' sayin' ... he does have a boss, is all ... Ahem. :evilgrin:

[demobabe]

2. Well first, we fire Gonzales...

...and then we work on firing the rest of them!

Or why not do both at once? Impeach.... impeach...!

:)