THC: What do you think about recent nominations by President Bush and how would you have voted?
JE: [Attorney General Alberto] Gonzales—no. Although I have to say, so far he’s doing a reasonable job from what I’ve seen. I know him—I got to know the Attorney General reasonably well because I was on the [Senate] Judiciary Committee and I interacted with him a fair amount about judges when he was in the White House. I always found him to be smart and trustworthy in my interaction with him. My problem with him is he was directly connected to the abuse issue and was very involved in the administration’s dealings with torture and abuse, and I think it sends the wrong signal to the rest of the world.
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THC: And [Secretary of State] Condoleezza Rice?
JE: I would have voted against Condoleezza Rice. I will say the same thing I said about Gonzales: I think so far she’s actually done a pretty good job as Secretary of State. But her connection to the lead up to the Iraq War and the statements made by the administration and her continuing to stand by those statements in the face of overwhelming factual evidence was not right.
The Harvard Crimson, 4/14/05
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=507083
