The Atlantic | July/August 2003 | The Texas Clemency Memos | Berlow

Another attempt at this link. This article argues that Alberto Gonzales, then legal counsel to Governor Bush, now White House counsel, purposefully omitted mitigating issues from his summaries of clemency pleas. In other words, he made sure that Bush could claim that there was no reason to grant clemency. This is just another reason why the death penalty is morally corrupt, and why this adminstration's tendency to surround themselves with people who lie or withhold critical evidence is troubling. Streak isn't happy.