-- Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers, Willacy County, Texas, District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra told CNN Tuesday.
Vice President Dick Cheney, right, and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted.
The indictment stems from Cheney's investment in the Vanguard Group -- an investment management company that reportedly has interests in the prison companies in charge of the detention centers, according to The Associated Press. It also charges
Gonzales halted an investigation into abuse at the detention centers while he was attorney general.
Democratic state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. also is charged in the indictment.
Michael R. Cowen, an attorney for Lucio, issued a statement calling Guerra a "one man circus."
"In the March 2008 Democratic Primary, 70 percent of the Willacy County voters elected to remove Juan Guerra as Willacy County District Attorney," Cowen said. "Now, with only a few weeks left in his term, Mr. Guerra has again chosen to misuse his position in an attempt to seek revenge on those who he sees as political enemies."
Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said, "The vice president has not received an indictment."
Willacy is near the United States-Mexico border.
Cheney, Gonzales indicted for alleged prisoner abuse
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Originally Posted by Last Roman
Yes it is rather difficult to say that our greatest President (according to a whole bunch of HIstorians) was in fact a criminal. Or does this mean that a President and his administration can in fact rule ABOVE the law (of course with consent from congress, or else he gets impeached)?
