In case you want to know just what a scumbag Alberto Gonzales is...

Read this...

JAN. 25 Alberto R. Gonzales, the White House counsel, in a memorandum to President Bush, said that the Justice Department's advice in the Jan. 9 memorandum was sound and that Mr. Bush should declare the Taliban and Al Qaeda outside the coverage of the Geneva Conventions. That would keep American officials from being exposed to the federal War Crimes Act, a 1996 law that carries the death penality.

and this in the New York Times.

Mr. Gonzales's request resulting in the original August 2002 memorandum was somewhat unusual, the officials said, because he went directly to lawyers at the Office of Legal Counsel, bypassing the office of the deputy attorney general, which is often notified of politically delicate requests for legal opinions made by executive-branch agencies, including the White House.

Oh, and...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The White House refused Thursdayto provide the Senate additional documents over the role of attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales had played in the decision to allow aggressive interrogations of prisoners.

Senate Democrats said the White House refused to give them all of the memos and documents they need to trace how that decision was made as the Senate began its confirmation hearing over Gonzales' nomination as attorney general.

And now the dude says:

"I will no longer represent only the White House. I will represent the United States of America and its people. I understand the difference between the two roles."

You shmuck, the White House is supposed to represent the United States of America. So you should have been representing American interests all along. And American interests do not include trying to find legal justifications for torture! Arghhh!