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27
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by Buck
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From a post over at AMERICAblog, Bush: Gonzo left after months of “unfair treatment”:
Just watched Bush, who it appears is, in fact, angry. He thinks Gonzo’s name was “dragged through the mud.” As you can see below, he also thinks his A.G. “is a man of integrity, decency and principle.” In the real world, none of those descriptors apply to Gonzales.
Joe Sudbay, AMERICAblog
I have to agree with president Bush here. Let’s take a quick look at Fredo’s record, shall we?
Gonzo:
- abdicated his responsibility to protect the rights of Americans, and exercises a cynical view on critical matters like the rule of law and the Constitution. Calls for Congressional oversight yield only uncooperative and misleading testimony.
- paid a March 2004 nighttime visit on a gravely ill and heavily sedated Ashcroft, lying in his intensive care unit hospital bed. Gonzales and Card tried unsuccessfully to persuade Ashcroft to reauthorize President Bush’s domestic surveillance program, which the Justice Department had just determined was illegal.
- repeatedly stood up in favor of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a facility where the denial of habeas corpus and harsh, indefinite detention has shamed the U.S. internationally.
- has failed to pursue violations of civil rights and voting rights laws. He has failed to investigate and prosecute criminal acts committed by civilians in the torture or abuse of detainees, failed to investigate and prosecute criminal acts and violations of the law resulting from the warrantless spying program, and championed renewal of the Patriot Act despite widespread bipartisan civil liberties concerns.
- failed to investigate possible perjury by a top general about abusive interrogation techniques, his department reversed the findings of its panel of experts that a Georgia voter identification law would discriminate against minorities, and further failed to uphold his duties as attorney general by forcing out experienced career attorneys in Justice’s Civil Rights Division and replacing them with less experienced, political loyalists.
I could go on, but I’m running out of space.
So, you see, he HAS been treated unfairly! He’s still walking around free, isn’t he? Does he look like he’s locked up in a prison to you? With this record, that’s where he should be!
