Arrest warrant for Dick Cheney??

[Chino]

I have been looking around and can't find much. All the articles say the same thing...

https://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/12/today-in-inevitability-dick-cheney-to-be-charged-with-crime.html

[rumborak]

Interesting. I wonder how that will the rest of the Sith. Wait, wrong emperor.

rumborak

[El Barto]

Honestly, who cares what the Nigerians want.  We're not going to let a former vice president get arrested for bilking people out of billions of dollars. Unless some Nigerian chick was blowing him, he's unprosecutable. 

[TL]

It's amazing that, with all of the terrible, highly illegal things the man has done, it takes Nigeria to finally try to hold him accountable.

Sadly, nothing will come of it, but at least they're trying.

[keysmann]

It's amazing that, with all of the terrible, highly illegal things the man has done, it takes Nigeria to finally try to hold him accountable.

Sadly, nothing will come of it, but at least they're trying.

Name all the things Cheney did that were highly illegal. You didn't think you were going to do a drive-by remark like that and not be called on it did you?

[El Barto]

Something tells me I'm going to regret even bothering, but I'll bite. 

The obvious and plainly indictable one is outing an intelligence agent with non-official cover.  If you or I did that, we'd be in some hidden cell somewhere in Leavenworth for treason, and rightfully so.  And unless you can honestly say that you knew what Brewster Jennings & Associates was before this thing happened, don't bother trying to say that she was no longer a spook. 

To be honest, though,  the man was able to keep his dealings right on the cusp of legality, and while it's pretty easy to look at him and say he's a criminal based on a common sense view of his actions, actually proving so would be insanely difficult.  Determining which of his actions actually constitute a crime would involve parsing the various nuances of the law and right or wrong with the same skill that he implemented in determining his actions.  Not a particularly fun pastime, in my opinion. 

I will offer up an idea, though.   The majority of politicians in Washington will never be indicted for anything.  Yet I think we will all agree that they're almost universally crooks.  To assume that all of the acts a person committed in office were legal because none were ever proven to be a crime would be monumentally naive. 

[PlaysLikeMyung]

It's amazing that, with all of the terrible, highly illegal things the man has done, it takes Nigeria to finally try to hold him accountable.

Sadly, nothing will come of it, but at least they're trying.

Name all the things Cheney did that were highly illegal. You didn't think you were going to do a drive-by remark like that and not be called on it did you?

Wow, you want a list of all of them? Don't ask for much, do you?


But what Barto said about the intelligence agent speaks volumes.

Oh, and he shot a man in the face and didn't even get a slap on the hand. If that were you or me, we'd be in prison for assault and battery at the LEAST. As it was, the man he shot apologized to HIM. Weird

[ReaperKK]

It's amazing that, with all of the terrible, highly illegal things the man has done, it takes Nigeria to finally try to hold him accountable.

Sadly, nothing will come of it, but at least they're trying.

Name all the things Cheney did that were highly illegal. You didn't think you were going to do a drive-by remark like that and not be called on it did you?

Oh, and he shot a man in the face and didn't even get a slap on the hand. If that were you or me, we'd be in prison for assault and battery at the LEAST. As it was, the man he shot apologized to HIM. Weird

I often wonder how many bullets that guy would've been hit with if he accidentally shot DC

[ack44]

It's amazing that, with all of the terrible, highly illegal things the man has done, it takes Nigeria to finally try to hold him accountable.

Sadly, nothing will come of it, but at least they're trying.

Lol pretty sure they just wanted the bribe money.

[Dublagent66]

What?  It's not against the law to be a Dick. 

[ack44]

Republicans, they love Dick but hate homosexuals.