Posted on 01/06/2005 4:19:14 AM PST by OXENinFLA
DATE: January 6, 2005
TIME: 09:30 AM
December 20, 2004
NOTICE OF HEARING
TIME CHANGE to 9:30 a.m.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on the nomination of The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to President George W. Bush, to be the Attorney General of the United States on Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. in Senate Hart Building Room 216.
Senator Specter will preside.
By order of the Chairman
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Witness List
Hearing before the
Senate Judiciary Committee
on the nomination of
The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales,
to be the Attorney General of the United States
Thursday, January 6, 2005
9:30 a.m., Hart Senate Office Building Room 216
Panel I
The Honorable John Cornyn
United States Senator [R-TX]
The Honorable Ken Salazar
United States Senator [D-CO]
Panel II
The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales
Counsel to President George W. Bush
Washington, DC
Panel III
Admiral John D. Hutson (Ret. USN)
President and Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center
Concord, NH
Mr. Harold Hongju Koh
Dean, Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Mr. Douglas A. Johnson
Executive Director, Center of Victims of Torture
Minneapolis, MN
Cornyn is great..if Spector screws up..he should be the next committee chair..
Wish I could be watching this. I can't believe we are actually having such a ridiculous debate about what rights terrorists have.
All this parsing doesn't seem to bother Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, an antiterrorism hard-liner who tried to give Ashcroft some breathing room. Schumer suggested to his colleagues on the committee that "there are very few people in this room or in America who would say that torture should never, ever, be used, particularly if thousands of lives are at stake."
The Peter Principle
If it wasn't on CSPAN I wouldn't get to see it! I'm glad it's on and I'm not at the mercy of what the cables, including Fox, deem is worthy of relaying to us.
You beat me to it. Now he's poking some big fat holes in the Abu Graib connection. Asks why we're talking about this as it's not an oversight commission of the DOD.
The Democrats are basically going to be defending AQ's right and providing them with free legal advice.
Let America see how the left treats minorities who are Republican nominees.
I do not thinks so. Irregular forces are not covered by the Geneva Convention. However, the US will afford them the GC anyway, but we are under no obligation.
No time to parphrase...
"There is a lot of commentary that makes clear that to be a member of an "armed force" under 4(a)(1) or 4(a)(3), you must still meet the four criteria in 4(a)(2). The idea of 4(a)(2) was to give irregular forces, such as militias, POW treatment if they conducted themselves according to the standards of normal armed forces, hence the listing of the four criteria. This has been the historical understanding from before even the Geneva Conventions. . . .[T]he Geneva Conventions were trying to encourage these irregular forces to operate according to the higher, "armed force" standard by promising POW treatment in exchange."
As you know, al qaeda and terrorists do not abide by the GC - or treat the same to US forces, so we do not have to either. I say give no quarters - but that's me.
He said, "the focus of the media's attention has been the memos."
Doesn't he mean "the focus of the Democrats?"
Or "the focus of the media wing of the Democratic Party?"
LOOK:
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., signed a challenge mounted by House Democrats to Ohio's 20 electoral votes, which put Bush over the top. By law, a challenge signed by members of the House and Senate requires both chambers to meet separately for up to two hours to consider it. Lawmakers are allowed to speak for no more than five minutes each.
Unless, of course, as Limbaugh suggested yesterday, the Dems want to sign a treaty with AQ so that the terrorists murderous butts are covered...
There is a God.
Some callers actually thought Rush was serious and thought it was a GOOD idea to sign a treaty with AQ. One worries about the state of mankind in view of such insanity.
Salazar states flatly that he supports the Patriot Act.
Astounding that Schumer actually made the connection between the possibility of torture actually SAVING lives. Quite a leap for a RAT.
Gonzales now sworn in.
Opening statement.
The Republicans, including GWB, Frist, etc., need to take off the gloves and start playing mean. Their 'trying to be nice guys' just isn't the way to counter the Dems. They tried it throughout the last 4 years and the Dems stuck it too them at every chance.
The Republicans are the majority. They need to start acting like it. They need to acquire Terazzzzzzza's quote, "Shove it" with the Dems and MSM. Instead, they act like whipped puppies.
The first SC nomination will be a bloodbath, if the Pubbies don't take charge now.
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