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Article: EDITORIAL: Gonzales' body blow against habeas corpus.(Editorial)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2007
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Jan. 30--Even when White House policies seem ill-conceived, they at least have a veneer of defensible logic. If America doesn't like the idea of government agents examining its library habits, the practice does make a certain quaint, paranoid sense. But Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has ceased even trying to maintain the pretense of reason. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales abandoned cogency altogether for bald assertion of illogic as truth.
It was Gonzales, you might remember, who couldn't find in law a barrier to torture, but could find permission to tap our telephones -- despite a law explicitly forbidding it. The subject ...