Halliburton, Dick Cheney, and Wartime Spoils

Here’s a worrisome scenario for the new leadership in Washington. Suppose they are unable to convince Americans that President Bush engaged in insider trading when he sold stock in Harken Energy back in 1990. And suppose they are unable to convince Americans that Vice President Dick Cheney used fraudulent, WorldCom-style accounting practices while he was CEO of Halliburton. What then?