On the recordFebruary 3, 2005
I will be voting against Mr. Gonzales for two main reasons. First, Mr. Gonzales was the legal architect of the administration's policies on torture. In 2002, when the intelligence community sought legal guidance about interrogation techniques, Mr. Gonzales asked the Justice Department to come up with legal justification for abusive interrogation tactics. The torture memo was drafted at his request and tacitly accepted by Mr. Gonzales. The Defense Department then used that memo to justify horrific and abusive interrogation tactics in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
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