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Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales Indicted By Grand Jury.

A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.



A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers:

The indictment accuses Cheney and Gonzales of engaging in organized criminal activity. It criticizes Cheney'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 by working through the prison companies.

Gonzales is accused of using his position while in office to stop an investigation into abuses at the federal detention centers.


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Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales Indicted By Grand Jury.

A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.



A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers:

The indictment accuses Cheney and Gonzales of engaging in organized criminal activity. It criticizes Cheney'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 by working through the prison companies.

Gonzales is accused of using his position while in office to stop an investigation into abuses at the federal detention centers.


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Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales Indicted By Grand Jury

Posted by Faiz Shakir, Think Progress at 4:41 PM on November 18, 2008.



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A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers:

The indictment accuses Cheney and Gonzales of engaging in organized criminal activity. It criticizes Cheney'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 by working through the prison companies.

Gonzales is accused of using his position while in office to stop an investigation into abuses at the federal detention centers.



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Faiz Shakir is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor of ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report.



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The Bush administration repeatedly insists that it does not practice torture: "We do not torture," President Bush declared in 2005. The U.S. "is not torturing any detainees," White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said last April. Dismissing a Red Cross report describing interrogation techniques that were "tantamount to torture," Bush proclaimed last year, "Haven't seen it, we don't torture."

Today, Perino took the Bush administration's torture denials to a new level when she insisted that it had never engaged in torture:

PERINO: This president has said that we did interrogate terrorists, and we did so to protect the country from possible imminent terrorist attack. We did not torture.

Watch it:

It is simply a lie to say that the United States "did not torture." Even setting aside the infamous Abu Ghraib incidents, Bush's own CIA director Michael Hayden confirmed that his agency had subjected at least three detainees to waterboarding. And as Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has explained, waterboarding is clearly torture:



All I can say is that it was used in the Spanish Inquisition, it was used in Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia, and there are reports that it is being used against Buddhist monks today. ... It is not a complicated procedure. It is torture.

There's no question that waterboarding -- a technique the Bush administration admits committing and says it would "definitely want to consider" reusing -- is torture, and McCain is hardly alone in his judgment:

- Malcolm Wrightson Nance, a former Navy instructor of prisoner of war survival programs: "Waterboarding is torture and should be banned."

-- Tom Ridge, former Homeland Security Secretary: "There's just no doubt in my mind -- under any set of rules -- waterboarding is torture."

Four retired Judge Advocates General (JAGs), in a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT): "Waterboarding is inhumane, it is torture, and it is illegal."

Perino is trying to rewrite the sorry history of the Bush administration. Luckily, President-elect Obama has promised to "make sure that we don't torture" -- a vow that entails a robust investigation into Bush's deliberate decision to implement a torture regime.

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Ali Frick is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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bring em on jj. and while you are at it bring up ALL your posts calling someone an idiot, calling someone a liar simply because they do not see politics as you do, or shall I? it dates WAY,WAY back, in fact just a few days after JJPAUL was registered.The numbers of your calling posters,LIAR or IDIOT is HUGE,,very HUGE.



Read you own lips. You call me a liar many times, like you I did not like it.
So THIS is what Cheney and Gonzalous have been doing all this time I thought they were in the "bat cave". LOL Big Grin

I do believe you're right foxy, no pardon before a conviction. Now if you want to theorize a left wing conspiracy as to why they waited so long for the indictment - say to make sure Bush couldn't pardon- than I'd say right on target, wouldn't you, Foxy?

De Nile is a river in Egypt,not a state in which to live in.

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Originally posted by TheFox:
JJ, I don't think Bush can pardon them before they're convicted. Besides, I don't think you can indict them for a fed. crime at state level anyway.


Nope, Ford pardoned Nixon for whatever he may have done, and it was unconditional, and there was no conviction. He probably could have even done a free murder or two.

And jurisdiction for federal crimes remains at the federal level. A local cop can arrest someone for a federal offense; a federal cop can't arrest someone for violation of a municipal ordinance

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