Alberto Gonzales

Alberto Gonzales
Born	Alberto R. Gonzales 1955-08-04 San Antonio, Texas
Alma mater	Rice University, Harvard Law School
Religion	Roman Catholic
Party	Republican
United States Attorney General In office February 3, 2005– September 17, 2007 - Present Preceded by John 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  White House Counsel  In office January 20, 2001– February 3, 2005 - Present Preceded by Robert 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  Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court In office January 3, 1999– January 20, 2001 - Present Preceded by Alberto Gonzales"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.  Secretary of State of Texas In office January 1, 1998– January 3, 1999 - Present Preceded by Alberto 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".

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".

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