if they can do it in texas,

shouldn't we be able to do it in Washington, D.C.?

A Texas grand jury has issued indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney general Alberto Gonzalez over abuse at privately run prisons, court documents showed.

The three-page indictment Tuesday alleges that Cheney profited from the abuse because he invested 85 million dollars in a mutual fund company which holds shares of for-profit prisons.

It said this is a "direct conflict of interest" because Cheney had influence over the federal contracts awarded to the prison companies.

The indictment also accused Cheney of committing "at least misdemeanor assaults" of inmates by allowing other inmates to assault them.

The indictment further alleges that Gonzalez "participated by further having used his position ... to stop the investigations as to the wrong doings which includes the assaults committed in the prison for profit in Willacy County, Texas."

Cheney and Gonzalez were charged with engaging in organized criminal activity.

Music to my ears.

I know what Obama said, that prosecutions for torture are not on his to-do list. But to say otherwise while Bush still has the power to pardon everyone in his whole goddamn administration would be stupid. And he said nothing about war crimes, which would include, of course, the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

If Obama fails to bring justice for the 1,000,000 Iraqis who have died as a result of BushCo's murderous gambit, we'll just have to make sure that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfled, Gonzales et al. take a vacation in one of the many countries that are parties to the Geneva Conventions.