I agree a bizzillion % about Cheney and his corporado band of marauders. Like the Bechtel boys of the 80s dark days of Republican rule (remember that ETSI coal slurry pipeline they wanted to build out of the Wyoming fields?), this is Baby Bush's bandito days. The corporations are just pulling the trucks up to the Treasury's doorstep, just like they did under Reagan/Bush.

And the Democrats helping them sneak everything else out the back door.

As I recall, the Special Prosecutor law was allowed to expire in the final days of the Clinton. Which means there is only the Bush Justice Department to investigate. Unless you count the Congressional investigation--but that would be a total waste of time and taxpayer dollars. Congress won't stand up to Bush because all the financial contributors would be pissed as hell if they did. Nope, this is one where I expect Bush will remain above the fray and will get off scot-free, just like his daddy before him did with the S & L scandal. Which should have been of Teapot Dome proportions, but barely made front page news, due to that wonderful Gulf War. Republicans just love to use their dirty little wars as subterfuge and camoflage.