Tomorrow, Alberto Gonzales, the Torturer's Apprentice, will appear before the Judiciary Committee.
As Greenwald has noted, Gonzales stays true-to-form with this last-minute disclosure. As with the Padilla case and his previous appearances before the Committee, Gonzales now has dropped what is being billed as another return-to-sanity bombshell, with the usual shock-and-awe publicity.
Wow. A sudden respect for the rule of United States law by its Attorney General and President? Of course, this would be nothing to celebrate given the events of the past 6 years, although it would be a welcome change of course. However, if you examine the text of the letter from the Torturer's Apprentice, that is not what is going on here.
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