The legacy of Alberto Gonzalez is that now, for the first time in its history, it is official policy of the American government to torture prisoners under its control.

Not, as was the case in the past when torture happened, but the Administration in power denounced it and distanced itself from the act.

Now, leading Republican Presidential Candidates vie for who can embrace the most torture for the most applications. And Conservatives everywhere are quoting lines from the fictional "24" series as though they were fact, frothing at the mouth for more men (and women and children?) to be tortured.

And our government, thanks to the complicity of Alberto Gonzalez, now shows that face to the world.

May he burn in Hell forever for what he has done to our country.