Former Harvard classmates criticize Gonzales, publish WP letter (Harvard Crimson, via Truthout)

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Former Classmates Criticize Gonzales
By Kevin Zhou
The Harvard Crimson

Wednesday 16 May 2007

'82 School alums publish open letter in Washington Post.

Fifty-six members of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' graduating class at Harvard Law School signed a quarter-page open letter in yesterday's Washington Post excoriating their former classmate for his "cavalier handling of our freedoms."

The letter stops short of calling for Gonzales's resignation, even as the attorney general comes under rising heat on Capitol Hill. But it is a stinging rebuke to Gonzales, just two weeks after the Law School Class of 1982's 25th reunion.

"Your country and your President are in dire need of an attorney who will do the tough job of providing independent counsel," the letter says. It calls on Gonzales to "relent from this reckless path, and begin to restore respect for the rule of law we all learned to love many years ago."

The decision to write the letter was made a few days after the reunion. One of the signatories, Barbara C. Moses of New York, said that the attorney general's appearance - which drew a small group of protesters, including one who donned an orange jumpsuit and black hood - motivated some of her classmates to go public with their criticism of Gonzales.

"It grew directly out of our re-meeting him, and thinking about what our responsibilities were to speak out," Moses said.

Marshall Winn of Greenville, S.C., added that the attorney general's appearance caused many of his classmates to consider whether it was time to issue a public rebuke against the Bush Administration's policies.

"I think the fact that he came to the reunion made us think that its really time for us to make a statement on what's been going on in this administration," he said.

The classmates debated whether their criticism of Gonzalez should be made publicly. About 15 to 20 individuals declined to sign out of courtesy or because "their job prevented them from joining," according to David M. Abromowitz of Boston, who helped write the letter.

However, Abromowitz said that the decision was made to run the open letter because the organizers wanted to encourage other individuals to express their opinions publicly. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051707J.shtml#1

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2. I don't get it. What are you referring to?

thanks,

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4. read the original post.

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3. Afternoon kick....

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