{"id":1284,"date":"2004-11-10T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/gonzales_for_ag\/"},"modified":"2004-11-10T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T18:29:07","slug":"gonzales_for_ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/gonzales_for_ag\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzales for AG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush reportedly will nominate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/11\/10\/bush.cabinet\/index.html\">a torture enabler<\/a> for Attorney General.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4989481\/\">Gonzales flashback<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As you have said, the war against terrorism is a new kind of war,&#8221; Gonzales wrote to Bush. &#8220;The nature of the new war places a \ufffdhigh premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians.&#8221; Gonzales concluded in stark terms: &#8220;In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva&#8217;s strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But hey, he&#8217;s Hispanic!  Only a racist would attempt to block this nominee from being confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/gonzales_for_ag\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Gonzales for AG\"><p>President Bush reportedly will nominate a torture enabler for Attorney General. Gonzales flashback: &#8220;As you have said, the war against terrorism is a new kind of war,&#8221; Gonzales wrote to Bush. &#8220;The nature of the new war places a \ufffdhigh premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}