A courier was threatened with arrest by SS (Secret Service) thugs for trying to serve Vice President Dick Cheney with a lawsuit accusing him of defrauding investors while at the helm of oil giant Halliburton. Cheney should be pilloried in the public square while wearing a tricornered hat. Do we even have public squares anymore? Ok, forget it. From Yahoo News:
Judicial Watch said its process server went the White House on July 22 to deliver the lawsuit to the vice president, who was chief executive of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000. But the group said the courier was turned away by the Secret Service and allegedly threatened with arrest.
“We have served many a lawsuit on Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton when they were in the White House … Never before have our process servers been threatened with arrest,” said Larry Klayman, who serves as chairman and general counsel of the 8-year-old legal foundation that has filed a number of highly publicized lawsuits against government officials.
I’m surprised Judicial Watch has been this dogged. I admire their stance as it puts millions of dollars in Republican donations in jeopardy.