Indictments against Cheney, Gonzales dismissed

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) — A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and told the south Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends.

Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accused Cheney and the other defendants of responsibility for prisoner abuse. The judge’s order on Monday ended two weeks of sometimes-bizarre court proceedings.

Guerra is leaving office at the end of the month after soundly losing in his March primary election.

“I suggest on behalf of the law that you not present any cases to the grand jury involving these defendants,” Administrative Judge Manuel Banales said in court while ruling that eight indictments against Cheney, Gonzales and others were invalid.

He also set a Dec. 10 hearing on whether to disqualify Guerra from those cases.

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Let me take a minute to just say, Willacy County D.A. Juan Angel Guerra is nothing more than a libber hack that got elected by pandering to his fellow libbers in Willacy County, the voting Mexican-Americans of Willacy County.

Texas counties that border with Mexico are overwhelmingly Democratic and liberal, and there is a huge number of Mexican-American voters. Many of them are very questionable in their legal status, but the question of their legality is roundly ignored, mostly because their immediate family members are well placed in County government.

Juan Angel Guerra is as crazy as a bug. The guy is on his way out of office and is looking to write a legacy that doesn’t point out his failings. Done so by going after members of the Bush administration for *crimes* that he believes them to be guilty of.

I posted this story on Nov. 18th, Cheney, former attorney general, state senator indicted and I said then, “Indictment does not necessarily equate to conviction.”, it appears that I was even more correct than I thought. Indictment didn’t even go to trial.

The indictment against Cheney alleged that his personal investment in the Vanguard Group, which invests in private prison companies, made him culpable in alleged prisoner abuse at privately run federal detention centers.

There may well come a time when Bush, Cheney and a few others ARE indicted and taken to trial, but this was nothing more than a *made up* round of BS , brought on by a desperate libber D.A. that is facing the reality of having to get a REAL job now. He wanted to ride this indictment into some kind of notoriety I am thinking.

I look for many more attempts at indictment to be made against Bush and Company after they leave office. The loony left is intent on making allegations of *war crimes*. They may make those charges stick, but I doubt it. George W. Bush may very well be the worst POTUS to hold the office but even I don’t think he is guilty of *war crimes*.

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Cheney, former attorney general, state senator indicted

McALLEN, Texas – 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.

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Indictment does not necessarily equate to conviction. The Dems are going to present as many indictments as they possibly can, they have made that clear for a long time.

The Bush administration has been accused of being responsible for everything that has happened since 2001, and certainly they are responsible for some things, the economy is first and foremost in my mind. The Dems think that *war crimes* is a great mantra to chant but going into Iraq, while NOT the right thing to do in MY not so humble opinion, was NOT a crime.

I am thinking that this is nothing more than a desperate act, a Democratic *fluff piece* if you will. Cheney is a diversified businessman and I am willing to take serious bets that he is in NO WAY engaged in the day to day operations of Vanguard Group. I would also be fairly confident in saying that Cheney has NO interaction with Vanguard Group other than being an investor.

I am invested in several businesses through my financial folks, if one of those businesses happens to be a corrupt or illegal business entity, does that make ME guilty of engaging in an organized criminal activity??

I don’t think so. I don’t believe a court would think so either. And the Dems are going to keep on wasting time and money, TAXPAYER money, in their effort to *hang* Cheney, and ultimately, George W. Bush, with some kind of crime, be that crime real or imagined.

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