Following calls for his removal, Gonzales resigned from the office "in the best interests of the department," on August 27, 2007, effective September 17, 2007. Attorneys who had refused back-channel White House directives to prosecute political enemies, allegedly causing the office of Attorney General to become improperly politicized. Gonzales had also presided over the firings of several U.S. government's post- 9/11 " War on Terror". citizens and the legal authorization of " enhanced interrogation techniques", later generally acknowledged as constituting torture, in the U.S. Attorney General was marked by controversy regarding warrantless surveillance of U.S. He previously served as Secretary of State of Texas, as a Texas Supreme Court Justice, and as White House Counsel, becoming the first Hispanic to hold that office. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) is an American lawyer who served as the 80th United States Attorney General from 2005 to 2007 and is the highest-ranking Hispanic American in executive government to date. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of TexasĪlberto R.
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