Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzaleswas the 80th United States Attorney General, appointed in February 2005 by President George W. Bush, becoming the highest-ranking Hispanic American in executive government to date. He was the first Hispanic to serve as White House Counsel, and earlier he had been Bush's General Counsel during his governorship of Texas. Gonzales had also served as Secretary of State of Texas and then as a Texas Supreme Court Justice...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 August 1955
CitySan Antonio, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.
We have to be successful in this endeavor because we -- if we're not successful it makes our job, in terms of evacuation and providing relief, even more dangerous and more difficult,
There has been significant litigation with respect to Mr. Padilla, and he has had access to counsel, ... He has had access to counsel.
As the court noted today, the authority to detain enemy combatants like Jose Padilla plays an important role in protecting American citizens from the very kind of savage attack that took place almost four years ago to the day,
This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.
I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications.
I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.
Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.
I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee.
the president's critical authority to detain enemy combatants who take up arms on behalf of al Qaeda.
we are bringing this prosecution at this time because it is the appropriate thing to do.
We have been dealing with this issue for years,
I disagree we waited too long to focus on this issue,
Obviously we would have preferred the escape not to have occurred,