Alberto Gonzales

Alberto Gonzales   (lawyer, war criminal)
Born	Alberto R. Gonzales 1955-08-04 San Antonio, Texas
Alma mater	Rice University, Harvard Law School
Religion	Roman Catholic
Criminal status	At large as of August 2016
Criminal convictions	• Torture • Cruel Inhumane and Degrading Treatment
Party	Republican
A "woefully incompetent" US Attorney General  United States Attorney General In office February 3, 2005 - September 17, 2007 Preceded by John Ashcroft Succeeded by Paul Clement "Woefully incompetent"  White House Counsel  In office January 20, 2001 - February 3, 2005 Preceded by Beth Nolan Succeeded by Harriet Miers This tenure lead to his conviction for war crimes  Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court In office January 3, 1999 - January 20, 2001  Secretary of State of Texas In office January 1, 1998 - January 3, 1999

Alberto Gonzales is a former US Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration. Termed "Fundamentally dishonest" and "woefully incompetent", 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". In 2012 he was tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity (Torture and Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment) by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission.

Testifying to the US Senate Judiciary Committee Gonzales stated “I don’t recall” or similar phrases 64 times in one day — a performance so memorable that it has since been set to music as a cantata.

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