Attorney General or Bush's Attorney?

Alberto Gonzalez and his conflictive standing with the firing of so many U.S. Attorneys, shouldn’t’ come as a surprise. His subservient loyalty and unconditional support of Bush has been known for a very long time. The present is just a continuation of such attitude.
Take a read at some of the recent past.
This was known in 2003 when Bush nominated Alberto Gonzalez:

Since his days in Texas the new Attorney General was a biased public servant on behalf of the then governor. In 1996 as Bush’s lawyer helped the governor obtain an excuse to avoid serving as juror, because of a previous conviction for DUI in the State of Maine. According to Gonzalez: “If Bush would have served as in a jury, he couldn’t have, as governor, offer a future pardon to the acussed”[USA Today, 3/18/02].

For a long time Senators were allowed to look at certain documents related to judicial nominees. However, in a letter regarding the then nominated Miguel Estrada, Gonzalez told Democrats that the administration would not offer those documents because it would violate executive privileges protecting deliberations regarding the president help. [New Yorker, 5/19/03]

According to Gonzalez many of the decisions of the Geneva Convention are outdated. In a memo from 2002 written by the acting Attorney of the White House, Gonzalez said that “the war on terrorism is a new type of war: and “this paradigm makes the strict limitations of Geneva regarding interrogation of enemy prisoners obsolete”. In the same memo offers his opinion that those Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees are exempt from the adequate and legal treatment of prisoners. It’s public record that the Bush administration declared that Guantanamo prisoners are not protected under the Geneva Convention [Gonzalez 1/25/02 memo; Newsweek 5/24/04]

As Bush’s legal advisor during his tenure in Texas, Gonzalez also told Bush that he could ignore international laws, in the case of Irineo Tristan Montoya of Mexican origin. Back then Gonzalez sent a memo to Bush justifying the non-compliance with the Geneva Contention. In a letter sent to the Department of State, Gonzalez argued that the treaty did not apply since Texas never signed it. Two days later, Texas executed Montoya in spite of protests from Mexico indicating that Texas had violated the rights of the accused under the Geneva Contention by not informing the Mexican Consulate as required at the time of his arrest [Slate, 6/15/04]

An examination of memorandums from Gonzalez to Bush made by Atlantic Monthly, concluded that “Gonzalez has repeatedly failed to inform the governor about crucial questions in the matters considered such as: wrong counsel, conflict of interest, exculpatory evidence, even evidence of total innocence.” Those memos were the vehicles by which Bush frequently approved executions based solely on the “most superficial explanation of the matters in dispute”. Instead of informing the governor of the conflictive circumstances of each case “This memos seem to be tuned to a radically different position, assumed by Bush since the beginning of his administration, in which he seeks to minimize his legal standing and the moral responsibility for the executions” [Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2003]

As in many other matters related to the Bush administration, wrongdoing and dirt are all over the place. Gonzalez is just another lawyer and a token minority guy who would do whatever it takes to stay within the grace of his master.