swamppolitics.com - 5/27/2009
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by Mark Silva
Add Alberto Gonzales, attorney general under President George W. Bush and the first Hispanic attorney general of the United States, to the lineup praising the cultural significance of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination for the Supreme Court.
Gonzales, who had been ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/28/2009
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com —
TPMmuckraker favorite Alberto Gonzales went on CNN this
afternoon to talk Sotomayor. But Wolf Blitzer also asked...
him about the ongoing torture debate. And it was interesting to see that Gonzo -- who was White House counsel at the time the torture ...
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Gonzo: Don't Blame Me For Torture -- I Wasn't At DOJ Yet
washingtonindependent.com - 5/20/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
Ex-FBI agent Ali Soufan’s account of the interrogation
of Abu Zubaydah is roughly this: he and several...
other interrogators from both FBI and CIA objected to the application of torture techniques from at least April to June 2002 (after which ...
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James Mitchell Asked, ‘Please Can I Torture Abu ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/27/2009
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Amazing as it seems, there was a time
not so long ago, when people were talking about...
a very different potential first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice: Alberto Gonzales. That never came to pass, of course. But it hasn't stopped Gonzo from using the ...
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The Self-Rehabilitation Of Alberto Gonzales
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