SOA Protest Photographs

Visit the SOA Protest Photo Gallery to see pictures of the November 20-21 protest at the gates of Fort Benning, GA.

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"I like him,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the leading Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today after a closed meeting with Alberto Gonzales, whom he has known as White House counsel.

“I said jokingly that the president, with the majority he has in the Senate, could have sent up Attila the Hun and got him confirmed,” Mr. Leahy said. “But Judge Gonzales is no Attila the Hun; he’s far from that, and he’s a more uniting figure."

Patrick Leahy’s vow earlier this spring that he would demand a full disclosure regarding Abu Ghraib has now melted.  Does John Kerry even remember that he once demanded that Donald Rumsfeld resign because of Abu Ghraib?

The New York Times helpfully reminds readers:

As White House counsel, Mr. Gonzales wrote a memo suggesting that the detainees need not be given the full protections of the Geneva Convention.

Oh, is that what that memo was all about!

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