Cheney in firing line over Nigerian bribery claims (French indictments?)

[Paragon]

Just like Kissinger, there may be certain places Cheney may never go abroad... :D

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1243393,00.html

A British lawyer is emerging as a key witness in a $180 million bribery investigation that could lead to the indictment of US vice president Dick Cheney.

Last week, US oil corporation Halliburton cut all ties with a former senior executive, Albert Stanley, after it emerged he had received as much as $5m in 'improper personal benefits' as part of a $4bn gas project in Nigeria. Halliburton also sacked a second 'consultant', William Chaudan in connection with the bribery allegations. At the time of these alleged payments, Cheney was chief executive of the corporation.

French investigating magistrate Renaud van Ruymbeke is examining a stream of payments surrounding the controversial project which was built during the regime of the late dictator Sani Abacha. The judge has uncovered a $180m web of payments channelled through offshore companies and bank accounts...

[fearnobush]

1. Chaney, please don't go - we need you on the ticket.

[Hekate]

2. Wonder why I've never seen this story in the US "news" media?

Is this just totally under their radar, or what? It's not the first time it's been brought up here at DU, so hey guys the secret's out. Maybe we should DU this topic by forwarding this article to the media contact list that periodically gets posted here, and just ask if they can expand on this topic 'cause inquiring minds want to know.

Dick Cheney just puts Spiro Agnew to shame: old Spiro just didn't have the vision thing when it came to criminal activities and ambition.

Hekate

[calimary]

14. You mean... THIS media list?

Last update: July 9, 2004:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1956556#1956858

This is also available in the Activism/Events forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x8816

Heh-heh-heh...

Ladies, gentlemen, START YOUR ENGINES!!!

[Aidoneus]

3. did Cheney get that email too?

The fool should've known it was trouble......

[Wabbajack]

4. Better hope he's NOT indicted

It will just fire up his wingnut base.

[KDLarsen]

6. Not to mention..

KKKarl Rove will most likely spin it into yet another round of France-bashing, and ranting & raving about how "them Cheese-eating surreneder monkeys" want to remove the god-fearing. aptriotic, all-american Dick Cheney, so that Kerry will be able to move directly to the White House (of course, with honourary mentioning of Clinton as the true mastermind).

[wicket]

10. bleh, I'm so sick of French bashing

You'd think the right-wing is obsessed with them or something! :)

[allemand]

8. I seriously doubt

that the French authorities would indict a sitting Vice President. At that point political considerations (the national interest) clearly overrule the legal process.

[hang a left]

18. From what I have read on this subject this particular judge has

indicted his own sitting government officials. I don't think that Cheney is a national interest to them, nor I come to think of it.

[calimary]

16. Good. If they're fired up, they'll demand that he stay.

That'll play straight into our hands.

[Laughing Mirror]

5. Stanley was stuffing his pockets with $5 million

while he was chairman of KBR, subsidiary of Halliburton. If Stanley was not reporting directly to Cheney, chief executive of Halliburton at the time, can someone please explain exactly who Stanley WAS reporting to? The buck had to stop somewhere. Where?

[KDLarsen]

7. According to Dubya*..

.. it doesn't stop at the top - it hits the top and then it bounces a few level back.

[shraby]

9. We owe the French a bushel of

thank you's. They are helping us get rid of the thugs in the white house.

[riverwalker]

11. they helped with the first Revolution

and now again with the second. :toast: :toast: Thank you France.

"Historians also stress the importance of the direct assistance that the European allies gave to the Americans in their victory over the British. It is probably not going too far to say that America owes its independence to foreign intervention and aid, especially from France. The French monarchy sent arms, clothing, and ammunition to America; it also sent soldiers and the French Navy. Most importantly, the French kept the United States government solvent by lending it the money to keep the Revolution alive. The magnitude of French support of the American Revolution can be glimpsed at the battle of Yorktown. There, the majority of George Washington's 15,000 man Continental Army were French soldiers. Washington's men were clothed by the French, the rifles they used were French, and French gold paid their wages. Nor must we forget that it was the French Navy that trapped Cornwallis's soldiers at Yorktown by preventing English ships sent from New York from rescuing the British army. Perhaps the final irony of the French monarchy's assistance to America (and proving once again that no good deed goes unpunished) is that it led to the financial collapse of the French ancien regime. And the bankruptcy of Louis XVI was one of the major causes of the French Revolution."
http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays/carp.html

[struggle4progress]

12. kick

:kick:

[Hobarticus]

13. Cheney & Kissinger can swap "fugitive from international justice" stories

Do you think anyone will care?

[quaoar]

15. If Cheney is indicted

I'm sure he'll be portrayed as the biggest victim of injustice since Joan of Arc -- burned at the stake by the heretics.

The best thing would be if French law allows -- as US law does -- for someone to be named an unindicted co-conspirator.

[hang a left]

19. Tell the French they will have to wait.

We have a few legal items to clear up with him over here first.

[JackDragna]

17. Here's the latest in red-herring legal ploys.

I see all the time how Bush will be indicted for something, Cheney will be indicted for something..the other shoe never drops. These are the most powerful people in the world. Best to not post these stories, lest to get everyone's hopes up. Cheney will be indicted just about the same time reality TV ceases to be vapid.