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Dear Senator Leahy,
Thank you for your note below responding to my earlier note. I strongly
urge you to vote no on the Gonzales nomination to be Attorney General. He should
instead be indicted for war crimes under the War Crimes Act (Title 18 U.S.C.
section 2441) http://www2.uakron.edu/low/War%20Crimes%20Act%20of%201996.doc,
the 1996 federal statue that makes torture a capital crime. We should
not have the chief architect of torture as chief law enforcement officer of the
US. Marjorie Cohn, professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law,
executive vice president of the National Lawyers Guild, and the U.S.
representative to the executive committee of the American Association of
Jurists, wrote an excellent article in Truthout http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011905A.shtml
giving the basis for an indictment. I urge you to circulate this
article to your fellow Senators and I strongly urge you to vote no
on confirmation of Alberto (torturer) Gonzales.
Jimmy
--------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:16:16 -0500 Subject: Re: Backing Gonzales is backing torture Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Mr. Leas:
Thank you for contacting me about the nomination of Alberto R.
Gonzales to be United States Attorney General. I appreciate hearing from you on this important matter. I am very concerned about President Bush's choice of Judge Gonzales, especially because of Judge Gonzales' role in developing the Administration's policies with regard to the treatment and interrogation of detainees. I invite you to read the statement I made at Judge Gonzales' hearing on my website at http://leahy.senate.gov. Please know that I will keep your thoughts in mind as the process continues. Thank you again for contacting me. Please keep in touch. Patrick Leahy
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