Alberto Gonzales | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-05

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Alberto Gonzales


00:01:53 1 Personal life
00:03:53 2 Early career
00:04:46 3 Recognition
00:08:13 4 Counsel to Governor Bush
00:09:54 5 White House Counsel
00:10:46 5.1 Dismissal of U.S. attorneys
00:21:22 5.2 Right to writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. Constitution
00:29:21 5.3 Support for use of torture
00:37:15 5.4 NSA domestic eavesdropping program
01:02:27 5.5 Objectivity
01:04:03 5.6 Executive Order 13233
01:05:46 5.7 Energy Task Force secrecy
01:06:27 6 Attorney general
01:09:15 7 Speculation over a Supreme Court nomination
01:14:11 8 Resignation
01:14:20 8.1 Demand
01:16:41 8.2 Announcement
01:17:45 8.3 Successor
01:18:22 9 Post-resignation
01:18:32 9.1 Investigations
01:20:32 9.2 Later career
01:22:34 9.3 Texas Tech University
01:23:39 9.4 Grand jury indictment
01:24:30 9.5 International investigation
01:26:19 10 Texas Supreme Court opinions
01:27:03 10.1 Majority opinions
01:29:02 10.2 Concurring opinions
01:29:49 10.3 Partial dissent, partial concurrence
01:30:01 11 See also



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuKfABj2eGyjH3ntPxp4YeQ

You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts



"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates



SUMMARY
=======
Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) is an American lawyer who served as the 80th United States Attorney General, appointed in February 2005 by President George W. Bush, becoming the highest-ranking Hispanic American in executive government to date. He was the first Hispanic to serve as White House Counsel. Earlier he had been Bush's General Counsel during his governorship of Texas. Gonzales had also served as Secretary of State of Texas and then as a Texas Supreme Court Justice.
Gonzales's tenure as U.S. Attorney General was marked by controversy regarding warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens and the legal authorization of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", later generally acknowledged as constituting torture, in the U.S. government's post-9/11 "War on Terror". Gonzales had also presided over the firings of several U.S. Attorneys who had refused back-channel White House directives to prosecute political enemies, allegedly causing the office of Attorney General to become improperly politicized. Following calls for his removal, Gonzales resigned from the office "in the best interests of the department," on August 27, 2007, effective September 17, 2007.In 2008, Gonzales began a mediation and consulting practice. Additionally, he taught a political science course and served as a diversity recruiter at Texas Tech University. Gonzales is currently the Dean of Belmont University College of Law, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he currently teaches Constitutional Law, Separation of Powers, National Security Law and First Amendment Law. He was formerly Of Counsel at a Nashville-based law firm, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP where he advised clients on special matters, government investigations and regulatory matters. He often writes opinion pieces for national newspapers and appears on national news programs.