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USA Today: Senate confirms Gonzales as attorney general

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alberto "Geneva Conventions are obsolete" Gonzales won Senate confirmation Thursday as attorney general despite Democratic accusations that he helped formulate White House policies that led to overseas prisoner abuse and was too beholden to President Bush to be the nation's top law enforcement official.

Yahoo News: Gonzales Nomination, Faith Leaders Seek Forgiveness

As the United States Senate votes to confirm Judge Alberto "US Torture is no Torture" Gonzales as the next US Attorney General, religious leaders are seeking forgiveness.
Sister Dianna Ortiz, a US-born survivor of torture in Guatemala, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Director of The Shalom Center, and Dr. George Hunsinger, Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and organizer of Church Folks for a Better America, today offered prayers seeking forgiveness for the US government's complicity in torture and for confirming a man who contributed to such an inconsistent policy

Washington Post: Iran-Contra Figure to Lead Democracy Efforts Abroad

Elliott Abrams, who pleaded guilty in 1991 to withholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra affair, was promoted to deputy national security adviser to President Bush. Abrams, who previously was in charge of Middle East affairs, will be responsible for pushing Bush's strategy for advancing democracy.

Moscow Times: Criminal World by Chris Floyd

The new man on the hot seat is Judge Michael Chertoff, nominated to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Chertoff was hip-deep in creating -- and covering up -- the infamous White House "torture memos": carefully detailed guidelines from the desk of President George W. Bush that instigated a global system of documented torture, rape and murder.

Isn't it ironic? Only in the Land of the Free the Judge who declared the Geneva Conventions obsolete gets promoted to US Attorney General, supporters of torture are going to head Homeland Security and Iran Contra Conspirators will will be responsible for advancing democracy abroad and then we also have protofacist islamophobic Daniel Pipes who headed the U.S. Institute of Peace till January 2005 and the list goes on.