A Texas grand jury has indicted Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, and a Lone Star state senator for crimes involving the abuse of prisoners here in the U.S. From what we hear, this concerns a practice that has been called “domestic rendition,” though it doesn’t have anything (directly) to do with the war on terror. A TAC writer has been following this story closely but wasn’t aware — until now — that Cheney and Gonzales were in the line of fire. They are.
We’ll have much more on this in days and weeks to come…
Update: Some details from CNN. Cheney’s ties to the story look, to my non-lawyerly eyes at least, pretty thin, though Cheney’s holdings in the Vanguard Group only scratch the surface of his connections to private-prison industry. We’ll see how things develop.
Ron 
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Greg in the Poconos 
Rumor has it the Bush team is going to try to claim that they’re shielded by executive privilege even after they leave office. I hope the Texas grand jury disabuses them of that notion quickly and soundly.
Now that I’ve got my normal comment out of the way, allow me to indulge my paranoid side:
Texas is one of the more Bush-friendly states left in our union. Is it possible that the Bush team has set up the most friendly scenario possible for themselves so that they can get an acquittal and then argue that any further indictments would be double jeopardy? I know very little about the law, so I could be all wet here, but past behavior seems to give this a probability higher than zero.