Do you remember Alberto Gonzales? It is all right if you don’t; it’s been a long time since he served as the White House counsel, then attorney general in the George W. Bush administration where he was an architect of some of the early war on terror’s worst legal offenses. You can thank him, in part, for the U.S. using military tribunals on terrorist suspects and the torture practices known as “enhanced interrogation techniques.” In 2007, he resigned amid calls for his ouster in the Senate for firing federal prosecutors for political reasons.
And now, the Republican once devoted........