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swamppolitics.com - 5/27/2009
Alberto Gonzales: Sotomayor 'powerful'
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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 ...

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Gonzo: Don't Blame Me For Torture -- I Wasn't At DOJ Yet
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/28/2009
Gonzo: Don't Blame Me For Torture -- I Wasn't At DOJ Yet
— 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 ... (more) Gonzo: Don't Blame Me For Torture -- I Wasn't At DOJ Yet

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washingtonindependent.com - 5/20/2009
James Mitchell Asked, ‘Please Can I Torture Abu Zubaydah?’; Did Alberto Gonzales Say Yes?
— 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 ... (more) James Mitchell Asked, ‘Please Can I Torture Abu ...

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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/27/2009
The Self-Rehabilitation Of Alberto Gonzales
— 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 ... (more) The Self-Rehabilitation Of Alberto Gonzales

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