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March 12, 2007
It's Time for an Attorney General Rather than a Consigliere
The New York Times has an important editorial on Attorney General Gonzales. Among other things is summarizes his career as attorney general with these words,
The attorney general helped formulate and later defended the policies that repudiated the Geneva Conventions in the war against terror, and that sanctioned the use of kidnapping, secret detentions, abuse and torture. He has been central to the administration’s assault on the courts, which he recently said had no right to judge national security policies, and on the constitutional separation of powers.His Justice Department has abandoned its duties as guardian of election integrity and voting rights. It approved a Georgia photo-ID law that a federal judge later likened to a poll tax, a case in which Mr. Gonzales’s political team overrode the objections of the department’s professional staff.
The Justice Department has been shamefully indifferent to complaints of voter suppression aimed at minority voters. But it has managed to find the time to sue a group of black political leaders in Mississippi for discriminating against white voters.
Please go read the whole editorial. It is spot on.
The New York Times editor concludes, "Mr. Bush should dismiss Mr. Gonzales and finally appoint an attorney general who will use the job to enforce the law and defend the Constitution." And I agree
Posted by Duane Smith at March 12, 2007 7:11 AM | Read more on Current Events |
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You agree and so do I. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It is difficult to imagine (even in our worse nightmares) the practices of this present oligarchy.
Posted by: Loren Fisher at March 12, 2007 8:42 AM
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