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Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Thu Feb 03, 2005 at 04:20:43 PM EST
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It's official. Alberto Gonzales has been confirmed as our Attorney General

The Senate voted 60-36 to put the first Hispanic ever into the job, with all of the "no" votes coming from Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independent Jim Jeffords of Vermont. Last week, 12 Democrats and Jeffords voted against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's confirmation.

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ACLU (via email, their press release should be up soon)

The newly confirmed attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, should immediately appoint an outside special counsel to investigate and prosecute any criminal acts by civilians in the torture or abuse of detainees by the U.S. government, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.

"Alberto Gonzales must demonstrate his willingness to uphold the oath of office as attorney general by appointing an independent special counsel that will credibly investigate and prosecute the high-level government officials who were responsible for allowing torture and abuse to take place," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "The questions senators had about torture will not go away now that Gonzales is confirmed-- a special counsel is the only way we can get to the truth of the matter."

Human Rights First Press Release

People for American Way (PFAW) Press Release

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    • Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General | 8 comments (8 topical)
    Re: Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General (none / 0) (#1)
    by Darryl Pearce on Thu Feb 03, 2005 at 04:44:10 PM EST
    Gee, we just hate it when people do it to us.

    Re: Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Feb 03, 2005 at 08:23:00 PM EST
    60 votes? two words: Supreme Court [this commenter is limited to four comments a day]

    Re: Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Feb 03, 2005 at 10:54:46 PM EST
    Talk about free speech. hypocrites.

    Re: Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General (none / 0) (#4)
    by soccerdad on Fri Feb 04, 2005 at 04:17:16 AM EST
    Just another day in the US where the rule of law means nothing, treaties mean nothing, and rank incompetence is no liability

    Re: Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 04, 2005 at 04:27:50 AM EST
    Who were the renegade Democrats that voted for the torturer?

    Re: Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General (none / 0) (#6)
    by roger on Fri Feb 04, 2005 at 05:22:34 AM EST
    How can the AUSA's take themselves seriously as upholding the law when their boss is a criminal?

    Re: Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 04, 2005 at 05:56:36 AM EST
    So "Gonzalez the Torturer" got more Democratic votes than "Ashcroft the Breast Coverer". Does this mean that the Democrats take the latter more seriously than the former? Seriously though. We will survive. The nation will not crumble. We will not see gulags for political dissidents opened in the next four years. Civil liberties will not be gutted, regardless of what the ACLU says. Then again, even if everything you fear about Gonzalez were to come true, wouldn't this be a good thing since it would tend to push people toward voting for Hillary in 2008?

    Re: Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General (none / 0) (#8)
    by kdog on Fri Feb 04, 2005 at 07:56:53 AM EST
    An AG who doesn't believe in unalienable human rights can never be a good thing justpaul. My country is more important to me than which corrupt, self-serving politician gets elected in '08.

    Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General | 8 comments (8 topical)