A WikiLeaks release of transmissions between the US and Nigeria may have caused plans from Nigerian authorities to charge former Vice President Dick Cheney of criminal activity over an alleged $180 million bribery payment made to secure a $6 billion natural gas contract for Halliburton while he was CEO of the company. Watch footage after the jump…
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On Thursday’s edition of “The Ed Show” on MSNBC, host Ed Schultz and John Nichols of The Nation talked about the need for the Department of Justice to launch its own probe into the matter based on their belief that the “highly-politicized” Bush DoJ had not taken sufficient steps to investigate the supposed misconduct. If they did, they argued, future WikiLeaks dispatches could play a part.
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