Columnist David Sarasohn reports, "It's now big news that the next United States attorney general thinks torture is a bad idea. It's a smaller story that it turns out he actually doesn't. "'Despite reports,' Gonzales said firmly, he didn't consider the Geneva Conventions 'quaint and obsolete' -- although the 'reports' consisted of a memo he signed saying that he did."
When pressed on whether he still believed, as another signed statement he made indicates, that the President has authority to exempt torturers from U.S. laws and treaties, Gonzales simply refused to answer.
It looks as though poor, put-upon Judge Gonzales is indeed being "borked" -- Like Robert Bork, he is being rightly condemned out of his own mouth for his bizarre and morally putrid legal pronouncements.
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