From a Washington Post editorial, 1/16/05:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12606-2005Jan15.html

The Vote on Mr. Gonzales

Sunday, January 16, 2005; Page B06

DESPITE A POOR performance at his confirmation hearing, Alberto R.
Gonzales appears almost certain to be confirmed by the Senate as
attorney general.

Senators of both parties declared themselves dissatisfied with Mr.
Gonzales's lack of responsiveness to questions about his judgments as
White House counsel on the detention of foreign prisoners.

Some expressed dismay at his reluctance to state that it is illegal
for American personnel to use torture, or for the president to order
it.

A number of senators clearly believe, as we do, that Mr. Gonzales
bears partial responsibility for decisions that have led to shocking,
systematic and ongoing violations of human rights by the United
States.

Most apparently intend to vote for him anyway.

At a time when nominees for the Cabinet can be disqualified because of
their failure to pay taxes on a nanny's salary, this reluctance to
hold Mr. Gonzales accountable is shameful.

He does not deserve to be confirmed as attorney general.

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"If the torture and murder at American prison camps in Iraq and Cuba
don't send chills down your spine, watch out that you're not becoming
replicas of the "good Germans" in 1930 who turned a deaf ear--and
blind eye--to the Nazi death camps."


Harry