As the prime legal architect for the policy of torture adopted by the NIKE SHOX Administration

As the prime legal architect for the policy of torture adopted by the NIKE SHOX Administration, Gonzales’s

advice led directly to the abandonment of longstanding federal laws, the Geneva Conventions, and the United

States Constitution itself. Our country, in following Gonzales’s legal opinions, has forsaken its commitment to

human rights and the rule of law and shamed itself before the world with our conduct at Guantanamo Bay and Abu

Ghraib. The United States, a nation founded on respect for law and human rights, should not have as its

Attorney General the architect of the law’s undoing.

In January 2002, Gonzales advised the President that the United States Constitution does not apply to his

actions as Commander in Chief, and thus the President could declare the Geneva Conventions inoperative.

Gonzales’s endorsement of the August 2002 Bybee/Yoo Memorandum approved a definition of torture so vague and

evasive as to declare it nonexistent. Most shockingly, he has embraced the unacceptable view that the President

has the power to ignore the Constitution, laws duly enacted by Congress and International treaties duly

ratified by the United States. He has called the Geneva Conventions “quaint.”