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Alberto Gonzales, Bush's attorney general, endorses Kamala Harris, warning of Donald Trump's "threat to the rule of law"
Alberto Gonzales, a Republican who served as attorney general under George W. Bush, said he's supporting Kamala Harris.
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Alberto Gonzales - Wikipedia
As White House counsel, and later as attorney general, Gonzales served president George W. Bush through a period of escalating controversy over the legality of U.S. policies in the fight against terrorism. Gonzales approved the legal framework for the administration's anti-terrorism efforts and was a reliable advocate for White House policy. He supported positions that enlarged the power of the executive and diminished protections for interrogation subjects. These rulings were vocally challenged by many scholars and human-rights advocates and were partly overturned by the courts. He resigned following sharp criticism of his handling of the firing of nine U.S. attorneys and subsequent testimony during congressional hearings.[19]
Support for use of torture
[edit]Main article: Torture Memos
Gonzalez was a supporter of the Bush administration's policy of torture of detainees, internally referred to as "Enhanced interrogation techniques".
In January 2002, Gonzales authored a memo that explored whether the Geneva Convention section III on the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GPW) applied to Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters captured in Afghanistan and held in detention facilities around the world, including Camp X-Ray in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The memo made several arguments both for and against providing GPW protection to al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
Gonzales later explained, "The old ways may not work here. That's what the memo was intended to convey to the President. I never meant to convey to the President that the basic values in the Geneva Convention were outdated." He noted that a British parliamentary committee visiting Guantánamo, while horrified by conditions at the base, had reached a similar conclusion when it said, "the Geneva Conventions are failing to provide necessary protection because they lack clarity and are out of date".[21] He argued that existing military regulations and instructions from the President were more than adequate to ensure that the principles of the Geneva Convention would be applied. He also expressed a concern that undefined language in Common Article III of GPW, such as "outrages upon personal dignity" and "inhuman treatment" could make officials and military leaders subject to the War Crimes Act of 1996 if actions were deemed to constitute violations of the Act.[20] Attorney General John Ashcroft made a similar argument on behalf of the Justice Department by letter to the President dated February 1, 2002, writing that a presidential determination "against treaty application would provide the highest assurance that no court would subsequently entertain charges that American military officers, intelligence officials or law enforcement officials violated Geneva Convention rules relating to field conduct, detention conduct or interrogation of detainees. The War Crimes Act of 1996 makes violations of parts of the Geneva Convention a crime in the United States."[22]
Well, Kamala supporters, you have W's uber corrupt AG and W's chief counsel arguing in favor of Gitmo, waterboarding, grabbing civilians in Afghan and locking them up forever in Gitmo etc.
In late 2002 Cheney came out and said "we know Saddam is giving chem and bio weapons to Al Qaeda". The "evidence" of this is from one Gitmo from Afghan, transferred to our CIA base in Libya (yes, Libya, under Gaddafi, who did Pan Am 103, was suddenly an "ally" in the "war on terror"
so George Tenet, mastermind of 911 and ADL's "highest award winner in 2005" for being behind 911, opened a CIA branch office with fellow Jew terrorist Gaddafi to "fight terror"), was waterboarded to say that and later told the FBI he was not AQ and just said it to stop the waterboarding. This Afghan, Al Libi, was then murdered in the Libyan CIA base.
Alberto Gonzales is Dick "Mengele" Cheney's attorney for waterboarding and Gitmo.
Why do you think he supports Kamala?????
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Because he does not want anyone to re-open the 911 investigation....
and that is Kamala's #1 position, and why she gets $$$$ from the 911 billionaires...
