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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: Indigo no-repeat scroll top left;"|Alberto Gonzalez;<br />
80th Attorney General of the United States<br />
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|February 3, 2005 - <br />
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'''Alberto R. Gonzales''' (born August 4, 1955) is the 80th Attorney General of the United States, succeeding [[John Ashcroft]]. He is a graduate of [[Rice University]], and a former member of [[Lovett College]]. In 2007 he came under attack for the firing of 8 US attorneys across America. As of April 19, 2007 [[President Bush]] has stated that he will not call for the resignation of Gonzales.<br />
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== Achievements ==<br />
* Led Project Safe Neighborhoods to help eliminate violence in inner cities.<ref>http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/May/06_ag_262.html</ref><br />
* Was instrumental in passing the historic Military Commissions Act<br />
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== "Controversies" ==<br />
Alberto Gonzalez was the center of a controversy over the firings of 8 United States attorneys. Detractors insisted that the attorneys were fired for political reasons, instead of performance-based reasons (a claim that no one in the White House has ever made). Despite the fact that United States attorneys serve at the pleasure of the [[President of the United States]], and can be fired at any time for any reason, the [[Liberal bias|liberally biased]] media insists on calling it a scandal. In fact, Alberto Gonzalez "tempered the White House desire to replace U.S. Attorneys wholesale." <ref>http://communities.justicetalking.org/blogs/day24/archive/2007/03/23/alberto-gonzales-raw-deal.aspx</ref><br />
During his testimony over this "Controversy", Mr. Gonzales stated 74 times that he could not recall various events relating to the situation.<br />
<ref>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/221105/alberto_gonzales_testifies_to_congress.html</ref><br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* Albert Gonzalez was voted the Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas in 1992.<br />
* His Secret Service nickname is "Elephant", a reference to his uncanny ability to memorize obscure parts of United States law.<br />
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