As White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales advised President George W. Bush that the Geneva Conventions were made obsolete by the war on terror and should not apply to al-Qaeda or Taliban prisoners captured in Afghanistan. Many critics charge that this position led to the abuse and torture of detainees held at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at a U.S. detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Gonzales later became the U.S. attorney general.
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