Ex-GOP Congressman Challenges Alberto Gonzales: 'Let's See What You Think of Waterboarding After You

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Ex-GOP Congressman Challenges Alberto Gonzales: 'Let's See What You Think of Waterboarding After You've Tried It!'


WHEELING, W.Va., June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Ohio Republican Congressman and radio talk show host Bob Ney has a challenge for ex-Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: "Let's see what you think of waterboarding -- after you've tried it!" Gonzales has maintained publicly that the Bush administration's waterboarding of alleged terror suspects did not constitute torture.

"If Alberto Gonzales wants to clear his name by saying he didn't cooperate in torture, then let him try it himself," said Ney, whose 1 PM show on WVLY and WVLY.net is heard in eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and throughout the western panhandle of West Virginia.

"When it comes to the worst abuses by the Bush administration, Alberto Gonzales is scurrying under every rock you turn up," said Ney, who served in Congress from 1995 to 2006, when he resigned to face criminal charges in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal.

"Whether it was rushing to the sickbed of his predecessor, John Ashcroft, to try to pressure him to sign off on illegal warrantless wiretaps, or getting the Justice Department to approve clear violations of the Geneva Conventions, there was Alberto Gonzales. He didn't follow the law; he did whatever he was told. He's part of the 'Great Lie' that was the last administration."

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