SHAME! * lawyer Gonzales dissed Geneva C., See his Texas record!

http://www.staugustine.com/stories/051704/new_2331629.shtml
Did legal foundation clear way for abuse?

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Within months of the Sept. 11 attacks, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales reportedly wrote President Bush a memo about the terrorism fight and prisoners' rights under the Geneva Conventions.

"In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions," Gonzales wrote, according to the report in Newsweek magazine. Secretary of State Colin Powell "hit the roof" when he read the memo, according to the account.

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NOW read this!

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-07-11/pols_naked9.html

The Guv's Death Row Secrets
Naked City
BY JORDAN SMITH

July 11, 2003:


In the current edition of The Atlantic magazine, Alan Berlow writes about the content of the 57 executive clemency summaries of death row cases prepared by then-Gov. George W. Bush's general counsel, Alberto Gonzales, which Berlow obtained through Texas' open-records laws -- memos the state is now seemingly trying to keep out of the public's hands.

Gonzales -- the former Vinson and Elkins partner whom Bush subsequently appointed secretary of state and then a Texas Supreme Court justice, before asking him to come to Washington as his White House counsel -- is considered to be on Bush's short list of U.S. Supreme Court nominees. Back in Texas, as the guv's general counsel, Gonzales prepared clemency memos regarding Texas' death row cases for Bush to review prior to an inmate's execution -- memos that were, as Berlow writes, "Bush's primary source of information in deciding whether someone would live or die." In reviewing the memos, Berlow discovered that they contained a paltry amount of information "repeatedly to apprise the governor of the crucial issues in the cases at hand," such as "ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence." And so it went; Bush refused to stay executions in 56 of the 57 cases for which Berlow obtained memos.

Berlow wrote that although Gonzales intended the memos to remain confidential, he got them under the Texas Public Information Act. The governor's office fought disclosure, appealing Berlow's request to then-Attorney General John Cornyn for review -- an appeal Gov. Bush lost on June 23, 2000. In a letter to Assistant General Counsel Jack Hines, the AG's opinion read in part: "We have reviewed the submitted memorandum and find that it consists entirely of factual information," Assistant AG E. Joanna Fitzgerald wrote. "The memorandum contains no opinion or advice from the General Counsel, nor does it contain client confidences. Accordingly, the office may not withhold the memorandum."
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Berlow's article can be found online at www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/07/berlow.htm, and copies of three of the clemency memos in question can be found at www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/07/berlow-documents.htm.


**(if you think this is important please kick, because I'll be away)

a position on the Federal bench. When the Senate balked and wanted to see his White House work, Gonzales withdrew his nomination.

No wonder!

:scared:

And if Bush gets a second term, this snake will probably end up on the Supreme Court.

for G_j :kick:

It certainly ain't gonna be Darth RUMS, WOLFOWITZ, CHEENEE, or Shrub! Otto REICH and PERLE are in hiding pending the election. NEGROPONTE has his death sentence as "ambassador to Iraq" (ha). Tony GARZA is safely tucked away in a nothing-to-do job as "Ambassador to Mexico". Condi RICE (wasn't she supposed to be "in charge" of Iraq?) was always being schlepped out to quiver her lips over every screw up. Colin POWELL was supposedly ignored, his role being to be a "face". The Hispanic court nominee, whassissname, was File 13ed. The other one who broke into the congressional computers was, too.

That's what Minority buttboys are for. Yes, Alberto is a disgusting puke. All minority members who are wingnuts ARE.

What are those two missing names-----Miguel ESTRADA (the court nominee). The computer thief, Orrin HATCH's fallguy?