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Could Cheney, Gonzales indictments be legit?

The Brownsville Herald on Sunday ran a feature profiling Willacy County DA Juan Angel Guerra ("Guerra bucks the odds," Nov. 30) and his much-ballyhooed prosecution of a private prison company for murder, including indictments of sitting Vice President Dick Cheney and former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.Because Willacy County politics is a complete zoo, sometimes literally, I avoid the more lascivious stories about Mr. Guerra and his various feuds with other local officials. His past exploits are why most observers (including this blog) have been dismissive of the Cheney and Gonzales indictments, but the Herald offers up the most sympathetic account yet published of Guerra's effort to drag national political figures into the mix in Raymondville...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).