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January 7, 2005
More about Gonzales
John Hinderaker of Powerline is talking up the Gonzales confirmation. He agrees with me that:
All of this heavy breathing is grotesquely misplaced. The two "offenses" with which Gonzales is charged are: 1) he received a memo written by the Justice Department on the question of what conduct would violate a statute that prohibits torture and other cruel and inhumane activity. The Justice Department's analysis of that statute appears to me to be sound, but, in any event, it was their analysis, not the nominee's. 2) He received from the Justice Department, and passed on to the President, a memo from the Justice Department on whether the Geneva convention applies to al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners. The Justice Department concluded, and Gonzales agreed, that the Geneva convention does not apply to those prisoners.
The whole article is a great read, check out the whole thing here.
What saddens me most is that it's journalist's quest to find negative news about any and every little thing that create great misconceptions about the motives and activities of people in the world today.
Whether it be Gonzales reading a DoJ memo or Bush following the law of the US with regard to pledging tax dollars for tsunami victims' relief. The news becomes the fight to discredit rather than the fight to report the events.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at January 7, 2005 4:35 PM
