Here we go again. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the political waters, Vice President Dick Cheney finds himself the target of a civil suit pertaining to conduct before, and completely unrelated to, his official duties. The suit, filed this month in federal court in Dallas, alleges that Halliburton Co., the company at which Cheney spent five years as CEO, overstated its revenues to the tune of $450 million dollars.
The prospect of a sitting vice president — especially one who brings enormous power and clout to the historically weak office — being forced to deal with the cumbersome realities of modern civil litigation may evoke an eerie sense of d�j� vu. After all, it wasn’t long ago that a small civil case brought by one Paula Jones against then-President Bill Clinton eventually mushroomed into the political brushfire that consumed a nation.
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