Listening to Alberto Gonzales reminds me of being back in law school where people would muse about just how far legal arguments could be stretched to cover various scenarios. It can be an interesting thought experiment while in an academic setting, but it's not necessarily such a great way to set national policy in the real world. Gonzales is a smart guy, but he seems to have no moral compass. He thinks it's OK for the US to do bad things so long as he can come up with some sort of legal argument that could conceivably justify them. I hate it that he is representing our great country.
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