Texas: Vice President Dick Cheney and Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Indicted
November 19th, 2008Via: Houston Chronicle:
A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on state charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County’s federal detention centers.
The indictment, which had not yet been signed by the presiding judge, was one of seven released Tuesday in a county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles in recent years. Another of the indictments named a state senator on charges of profiting from his position.
Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra himself had been under indictment for more than a year and half before a judge dismissed the indictments last month. This flurry of charges came in the twilight of Guerra’s tenure, which ends this year after nearly two decades in office. He lost convincingly in a Democratic primary in March.
Cheney’s indictment on a charge of engaging in an organized criminal activity criticizes the vice president’s investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and “at least misdemeanor assaults” on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.
Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cheney, declined to comment on Tuesday, saying that the vice president had not yet received a copy of the indictment.
The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons.
Who- hah. This is the distinct sound that can only be apreciated as it is uttered from Al Pacino’s lips in the movie “Scent of a Woman.’ One of my favorite movies.
Who-hah.
Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales indicted in Texas for their treatment of prisoners in TEXAS?
WTF?
Who-hah.
As the wheel turns.
Who will indict them for their treatment of prisoners in the WOT (War on Terror?)
Me, I have to hide and watch because the diatribes I have stored inside of me about how I think Cheney should be “treated” almost got me banned from this website so I have to behave myself.
Cheney imdicted in Texas of all places.
Long live rock and roll.
The goddess is great and merciful.
As the wheel turns.
Justice.
We may not see it in our lifetimes.
But Allah is great too.
Many gods, many peoples harmed.
Justice.
Methinks it may rock on unimpeded by any class of peoples, presidents etx.
Rock on.