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Bush Official Behind 'Torture Memos' Calls Trump Threat to Rule of Law
Newsweak ^

Posted on 09/13/2024 11:30:27 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

Alberto Gonzales, who served as White House counsel and attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris in a POLITICO Magazine op-ed published Thursday morning.

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Gonzales and Cheney were both widely reviled by liberals and Democrats during the Bush years, particularly over their roles in the domestic and foreign responses to 9/11.

Gonzales, acting as Bush's top White House lawyer, signed an infamous memo in 2002 arguing that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to either al-Qaeda or Taliban detainees, and that those rules were "quaint" and "obsolete" in dealing with the War on Terror.

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To: piasa

Are you the one who added the keyword ‘bleedingheartattack’?


21 posted on 09/13/2024 12:28:48 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Othniel77

You’re assuming they have scruples and morals; that ship sailed long ago.


22 posted on 09/13/2024 12:32:04 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Tench_Coxe

Trump is a threat to Rule of Law ... fare

He means Trump should just role over and accept his lawfare beating.


23 posted on 09/13/2024 12:51:31 PM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Bush is all Rino as daddy was.


24 posted on 09/13/2024 1:09:19 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Tench_Coxe

25 posted on 09/13/2024 1:09:54 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Tench_Coxe

Torturers For Kamala!


26 posted on 09/13/2024 1:17:19 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

They’d send us to Abu Ghraib if they could.


27 posted on 09/13/2024 1:18:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

George W. Bush read a “white paper” whose authors could not refer to our country as “our country,” as they sought to write newspeak and changed “our country” to the obsequious socialist “the homeland” . . .

The academic-political-correctness even baffled some in Hollywood who had worked on the movie:

The Big Country (we own it)

A title that would be changed to sound weird - but “politically-correct” by G. W. Bush “values:”

The Big Homeland (uniparty insiders’ club)

Result: The Dept. of Homeland Security, that imagines that it has supreme authority over the rule of law.


28 posted on 09/13/2024 1:32:51 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: No name given

can we add Neal Cavuto to the anti
trumpers?

He is blatantly anti trump, even spreading the
dem lies about Trump


29 posted on 09/13/2024 1:38:57 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (RINO going along to get along with)
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To: Tench_Coxe

the Geneva Conventions did not apply to either al-Qaeda or Taliban detainees,


That part is correct.


30 posted on 09/13/2024 1:43:06 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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