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A bribe too far. Any sentence containing the words "embezzlement" and "Cheney" is apt to get our attention (WSJ, sub. req'd.):

WASHINGTON (AP)--The Justice Department is looking into allegations that a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (HAL) was involved in payment of $180 million in bribes to win a contract for a natural gas project in Nigeria, officials said Wednesday.

The $4 billion Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas Plant was built in the 1990s by a consortium that included a Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, during a time when Vice President Dick Cheney headed Halliburton.

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A French magistrate, Renaud Van Ruymbeke, is also investigating the Nigerian payments and has said in a memo that embezzlement charges could ultimately be filed against Cheney in Paris. Cheney's aides have refused comment on the allegations.

With Enron's (and Merrill Lynch's) bogus Nigerian barges, Halliburton's Nigerian dirty bomb ingredient americium, and now Halliburton's Nigerian bribes, we have to ask the question:

What other yet-undiscovered secrets link the Bush-Cheney administration with Nigeria?

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