This entry was posted on Thursday, January 27th, 2005 at 10:16 am and is filed under George W. Bush.


Down the crapper!New York Times – Senate Panel Approves Gonzales on a Party-Line Vote: The Senate Judiciary Committee, divided along party lines over questions of torture and accountability, voted 10 to 8 on Wednesday in favor of Alberto R. Gonzales’s nomination as the nation’s 80th attorney general.

27 January 2005; mark it in your diaries. It’s the day the western world officially turned to shit.

UPDATE:

ACLU – Government Documents on Torture: More than 600 documents the government did not want the general public to read – including an FBI memo stating that Defense Department interrogators impersonated FBI agents and used “torture techniques” against a detainee at Guantanamo.

DailyKos – Gonzales Requested Torture Memo