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Cheney and Gonzales Indicted… Sort Of

Posted by PATRICK EDABURN in At TMV.
Nov 19th, 2008 | Comments

Even many of the more liberal blogs are having trouble buying in to this one.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AI11B20081119

It seems that Cheney owns stock in Vanguard Fund (yeah the one that tens of millions of people own stock in) and it in turn has a portfolio that owns some stock in a company which manages some of the private prisons in Texas.

So clearly Cheney was right at the center of it.

Gonzales was hit for failing to thoroughly investigate the matter.

DLS

This is dwarfed by Halliburton. It really is no big deal, much too little (much too late). More interesting with the prisons would be what I've read about in a book a year or two ago about problems at some privately-run prisons that involved some of the same people in the news regarding similar problems at Abu Ghraib, and some people of whom went to Guantanamo (managing the facility, or making recommendations about running it, not as prisoners!).

AustinRoth

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