John Dean on White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales's Texas Execution Memos. Rough translation: When Bush was governor of Texas, he spent very little time considering whether to grant clemency to prisoners who were about to be put to death. All he did was glance at case summaries prepared by Gonzales — summaries that seem to have more been written to explain why the party had to be put to death than to inform Bush of possibly mitigating circumstances. Since Gonzales seems like a likely Supreme Court nominee, we may hear a lot more about this.