[Peace-discuss] Re:Calling DC on Rice and Gonzales nominations....

[jencart]

Yeah, I just called both of our senators and am hinking about ditto Feingold.  Capital switchboard is 202/224-3121  Toll free is 877/762-8762 -- ask for Senators, Reps by name @ no charge.  

White House comment line is 202/456-1414.  White House direct line is 202/456-1111, or e-mail <president at whitehouse.gov> These last 3 are especially important, as George Bush and his staff are sensitive and responsive to the views of the people, especially anti-war activists.

Jenifer C.
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[It may be worthwhile to call our senators today and demand a vote against Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General.  As (even) the Washington Post editorial below makes clear, a rejection of Gonzales would be a condemnation of the US torture policy -- and enough senators are nervous about the matter that it looks possible. (The vote will be another test of Obama's shaky "progressivism.") You can contact our senators as follows: Durbin -- phone 202.224.2152, fax 202.228.0400, email
<http://durbin.senate.gov/sitepages/contact.htm>; Obama -- phone 202.224.2854, fax 202.228.5417, email <http://obama.senate.gov/contact/>.]

A Degrading Policy

ALBERTO R. GONZALES was vague, unresponsive and misleading in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Bush administration's detention of foreign prisoners. In his written answers to questions from the committee, prepared in anticipation of today's vote on his nomination as attorney general, Mr. Gonzales was clearer -- disturbingly so, as it turns out. According to President Bush's closest legal adviser, this administration continues to assert its right to indefinitely hold foreigners in secret locations without any legal process; to deny them access to the International Red Cross; to transport them to countries where torture is practiced; and to subject them to treatment that is "cruel, inhumane or degrading," even though such abuse is banned by an international treaty that the United States has ratified. In effect, Mr. Gonzales has confirmed that the Bush administration is violating human rights as a matter of policy.

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