Posted by Jack Lee
Liberals were salivating when they heard about the indictments of Vice President Cheney several weeks ago, but in their excitement they never once questioned the real motives or even the merits of the indictments. (We call these types Kool-aide drinkers). So, they gleefully just accepted the indictments carte’ blanche, and now they look foolish because it was all a put up job by a crackpot DA with a grudge.
The first time the indictments were brought before a judge they were thrown out as being utterly worthless and worse, the story looks like they were done with a malicious hidden agenda by a controversial district attorney who himself was being thrown out of office by the voters… voters had enough of his antics!
An AP story explains, “A Texas judge has dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that had been brought by a controversial prosecutor nearing the end of his term.
The indictment against Cheney had alleged that his investment in the Vanguard Group, which invests in private prisons, was a conflict of interest allowing him to profit from detention centers where inmates were being abused. The indictment against Gonzales had claimed he had used his position to stop a prison abuse investigation in Willacy County.” Neither charge met the minimum requirement to sustain the indictments. Basically the indictments failed on technical grounds, but they were so far reaching that they failed the prelim test that asks only that sufficient proof be presented that would lend a prudent person to suspect that a crime had been committed.
The irony here is the person who brought the charges District Attorney Guerra himself had previously been indicted for allegedly extorting money from a bail bond company.
Among those indicted by Guerra who also won dismissals yesterday were two special prosecutors, two judges and a court clerk who had a part in the investigation of Guerra.
This is another case of he who laughs last, laughs best…liberals eat crow.