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Termed "Fundamentally dishonest" and "woefully incompetent", Alberto Gonzales was US [[Attorney General]] in the [[George W. Bush]] administration. He was named #3 (after [[Dick Cheney]] and [[Karl Rove]] of a list of "The Top 43 Appointees Who Helped Make Bush The Worst President Ever".<ref name=tp>http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/01/17/34948/bush-43-worst/</ref>
 
Termed "Fundamentally dishonest" and "woefully incompetent", Alberto Gonzales was US [[Attorney General]] in the [[George W. Bush]] administration. He was named #3 (after [[Dick Cheney]] and [[Karl Rove]] of a list of "The Top 43 Appointees Who Helped Make Bush The Worst President Ever".<ref name=tp>http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/01/17/34948/bush-43-worst/</ref>

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Person.png Alberto Gonzales  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
BornAlberto R. Gonzales
1955-08-04
San Antonio, Texas
Alma materRice University, Harvard Law School
ReligionRoman Catholic
PartyRepublican

Employment.png United States Attorney General

In office
February 3, 2005– September 17, 2007 - Present
Preceded byJohn Ashcroft, William Barr, William Barr, Griffin Bell, Dana Boente, Charles Bonaparte, Robert Bork, Benjamin Civiletti, Ramsey Clark, Paul Clement, Homer Stille Cummings, Mark Filip, Alberto Gonzales, Eric Holder, Eric Holder, Robert H. Jackson, Nicholas Katzenbach, Richard Kleindienst, Philander Knox, Edward H. Levi, Loretta Lynch, Edwin Meese, John Mitchell, William D. Mitchell, Michael Mukasey, Frank Murphy, Richard Olney, RFK, Janet Reno, Elliot Richardson, William P. Rogers, William Saxbe, Jeff Sessions, William French Smith, Edwin Stanton, Harlan Stone, Alphonso Taft, Richard Thornburgh, Sally Yates"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.John Ashcroft

Employment.png White House Counsel Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
January 20, 2001– February 3, 2005 - Present
Preceded byRobert Bauer, Philip Buchen, Clark Clifford, Chuck Colson, Gregory Craig, Arthur Culvahouse, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, Fred F. Fielding, Fred F. Fielding, Leonard Garment, Alberto Gonzales, C. Boyden Gray, Robert Lipshutz, Don McGahn, Harriet Miers, Abner Mikva, Beth Nolan, Bernard Nussbaum, Jack Quinn, Kathryn Ruemmler, Charles Ruff, Theodore Sorensen"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.Beth Nolan

Employment.png Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court

In office
January 3, 1999– January 20, 2001 - Present
Preceded byAlberto Gonzales"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.

Employment.png Secretary of State of Texas

In office
January 1, 1998– January 3, 1999 - Present
Preceded byAlberto Gonzales"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.

Termed "Fundamentally dishonest" and "woefully incompetent", Alberto Gonzales was US Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration. He was named #3 (after Dick Cheney and Karl Rove of a list of "The Top 43 Appointees Who Helped Make Bush The Worst President Ever".[1] [2]

Career

He signed off on the US use of torture and was an architect of the legal facade to try to excuse the "war on terror".[1]

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References

  1. ↑ a b http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/01/17/34948/bush-43-worst/
  2. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083000995.html


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