Texas Tech Hires Alberto Gonzales

Texas Tech has a new faculty member: the torture defending Alberto Gonzales.

Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as the Bush administration’s embattled attorney general nearly two years ago, has lined up a fall-semester teaching spot at Texas Tech University, the university confirmed today.

Gonzales, who was Gov. George W. Bush’s lawyer, Texas secretary of state and then a Texas Supreme Court justice before joining Bush in Washington, will be working as an visiting professor in the political science department, teaching a “special topics” course on contemporary issues in the executive branch, according to Dora Rodriguez, a senior business assistant in the department. The university later said it will be a junior-level course.

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what "special topics" on the executive branch he'll teach?  I think "How to Shit on the Constitution" would be a good course title for him.  And, I hope he manages his classes better than he managed The Department of Justice.

WASHINGTON — Former Justice Department officials broke the law by letting Bush administration politics dictate the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, according to an internal investigation released Monday.

For nearly two years, top advisers to then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales discriminated against applicants for career jobs who weren't Republican or conservative loyalists, the Justice report found.

At times, their search for GOP activists delayed filling judgeships and threatened to clog immigration courts, the report said.

The federal government makes a distinction between "career" and "political" appointees, and it's a violation of civil service laws and Justice Department policy to hire career employees on the basis of political affiliation or allegiance.

Yet Monica Goodling, who served as Gonzales' counselor and White House liaison, routinely asked career job applicants about politics, the report concluded.

I wonder if there will be an ideological test for students in his class as well?  I know I should not worry though because David Horowitz will surely keep an eye on him to make sure those students get a fair and balanced education.  Meanwhile . . .

Comments

[Mike Licht]

Mr. Gonzales will lecture at Tech on his area of expertise, Fluid Mechanics of Waterboarding.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/professor-gonzales/