youtube.com — US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tries to pull some double speak on Senator Arlen Specter, ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Specter won't have any of it and calls Gonzales Common Sense into question, quite literally.
Jan 23, 2007 View in Crawl 4
ppayanoJan 23, 2007
Attorney General Gonzales tries to tell the Senate that the Constitution does not guarantee Habeas Corpus which is "the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action."<a class="user" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=YIFqYVAOosM">http://youtube.com/watch?v=YIFqYVAOosM</a>
littlebylittleJan 23, 2007Submitter
This clip (same clip as the main post) also features Specter asking Gonzales how it is that The Supreme Court's explicit decision stating that Habeas DOES apply to Gitmo detainees, has been thrown under the bus with no authority to do so.Gonzales Hems, Haws, and dances around just as he did with every other question. Pretty much all he says to the majority of the questions is that he'd be happy to get back to them or speak with them at another time (privately). At one point Senator Leahy gets tired of this and says, "I'll give you ONE week."Bravo Senator Leahy! Enough of this Bullsh-t!
littlebylittleJan 24, 2007Submitter
I thank God there are still other sane or unoblivious people in this country. I couldn't agree more.