# 46 Bush stonewalling on Gonzales.
With Gonzales' record of supporting torture and eliminating Constitutional protections, it's no surprise that a wicked man would want to hide his record (which says just what about GWB?).
Why, Gonzales might want to apply the Patriot Act to non-terrorist Americans!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aZKEt_nX7im0&refer=us
Gonzales Hearing `Contentious' Without Documents, Leahy Says
Jan. 4
(Bloomberg) -- Continued White House refusal to turn over memos by counsel Alberto Gonzales on treatment of suspected terrorists would create a "contentious issue" in Senate confirmation hearings on his nomination by President George W. Bush to be U.S. attorney general, a key Democratic lawmaker said.
In a letter to Gonzales, Senator Patrick Leahy, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sought eight memos and documents before Gonzales appears in two days at a hearing on his nomination to succeed Attorney General John D. Ashcroft. Democrats previously asked for the material after the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison.
"I am disappointed that contrary to your promises to me to engage in an open exchange and to answer my questions in connection with your confirmation process, you have not answered my letters," Leahy wrote.
He said the withheld material is "relevant to your nomination."
Among the documents are the final version of Gonzales's Jan. 25, 2002, draft memo that said Geneva Convention protections for war prisoners don't apply to Taliban fighters detained in Afghanistan or suspected al-Qaeda operatives seized worldwide.
The White House, citing "longstanding practice," refused last month to provide the memo, Leahy said.
Why, Gonzales might want to apply the Patriot Act to non-terrorist Americans!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aZKEt_nX7im0&refer=us
Gonzales Hearing `Contentious' Without Documents, Leahy Says
Jan. 4
(Bloomberg) -- Continued White House refusal to turn over memos by counsel Alberto Gonzales on treatment of suspected terrorists would create a "contentious issue" in Senate confirmation hearings on his nomination by President George W. Bush to be U.S. attorney general, a key Democratic lawmaker said.
In a letter to Gonzales, Senator Patrick Leahy, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sought eight memos and documents before Gonzales appears in two days at a hearing on his nomination to succeed Attorney General John D. Ashcroft. Democrats previously asked for the material after the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison.
"I am disappointed that contrary to your promises to me to engage in an open exchange and to answer my questions in connection with your confirmation process, you have not answered my letters," Leahy wrote.
He said the withheld material is "relevant to your nomination."
Among the documents are the final version of Gonzales's Jan. 25, 2002, draft memo that said Geneva Convention protections for war prisoners don't apply to Taliban fighters detained in Afghanistan or suspected al-Qaeda operatives seized worldwide.
The White House, citing "longstanding practice," refused last month to provide the memo, Leahy said.
posted by T.G. at 7:23 AM
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