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You want the truth? Then torture Gonzales

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Congress is concerned that At-
torney General Alberto Gonzales
is not telling the truth. The best
way to get the truth from Gonza-
les is to subject him to water-
boarding or another equally force-
ful means of getting people to talk.
While squeamish civil libertarians
and bleeding-heart liberals might
object to this, claiming that such
practices are methods of torture,
Gonzales himself would not agree.
As the president's legal adviser, he
argued that such tactics are per-
fectly permissible in interrogation.
Irony aside, Gonzales' funda-
mental disregard for the rule of
law and basic constitutional vales
(as evidenced by his advocacy of
torture) is a far more compelling
ground for his removal than his
crude attempts to politicize the
conduct of federal prosecutors.

James K. Genden, Evanston

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