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A dozen retired generals and admirals said Tuesday they have deep concern about Alberto Gonzales nomination as attorney general because of his role in crafting Bush administration policy on questioning terror suspects.The high-ranking officers include retired Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They made their views known in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will hold hearings on Gonzales nomination later this week.They urged senators to question Gonzales aggressively about whether he now believes that torture may be used in some instances and whether anti-torture laws and treaties like the Geneva Conventions apply stanley canada to anyone captured by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The full extent of Mr. Gonzales role in endorsing the use of torture remains unclear, retired Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Hoar said at a news conference organized by the group Human Rights First.The Justice Department in 2002 asserted that President Bush s wartime powers superseded those laws and treaties. Gonzales, while at the White House, also wrote a memo to President Bush on Jan. 25, 2002, arguing that the war on terrorism renders obsolete Geneva s strict limitations on que stanley mug stioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provi stanley cup usa sions. Gonzales also received several memos on the subject, including one from then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee arguing that the president has the powe |
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