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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
Good riddance to both. Ashcroft's replacement could be worse, but I'm not so sure about Evans. We need a real free trader in that position, not someone with neanderthal economic views.
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Got this email a few days ago:
We are writing to you so early in the New Year to ask you to call your Senator and demand that he or she oppose the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General. Alberto Gonzales is currently White House Counsel, and in this role he wrote and approved memos for President Bush that led to the incidents of torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and across the world.
Mr Gonzales created a convoluted legal argument excusing the administration from applying the Geneva Conventions or the protections of the Bill of Rights to those that they claim are terrorists. This denies both due process to these individuals, so that they have no recourse to the courts or to any hearing to even try to establish their innocence or for their guilt to be proven. It also stretched the definition of what is and is not torture beyond what any reasonable person could accept. The result was the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib shown above.
Now the Senate will holding a confirmation hearing for Alberto Gonzales on Thursday, January 6. Please take action now - call your Senator at 1-202-224-3121 and demand that they refuse to nominate a supporter of torutre as US Attorney General.