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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

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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