USATODAY.com - Why Bush, GOP can block all inquiries

USATODAY.com - Why Bush, GOP can block all inquiries: "For nearly a decade, special counsel inquiries and adversarial congressional hearings dominated the headlines, etched bitter partisan lines, led to the impeachment of a president and made the nation's political debates resemble hand-to-hand combat.
Now, some things have changed. The law that provided for special counsels has expired. President Bush's fellow Republicans control both houses of Congress. The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, has stepped back from challenging the White House after losing a court case that sought to open the records of Vice President Cheney's energy task force."

Ugh and double ugh. BTW, some of Cheney's energy task force documents were released (err, pried from their cold, bloody hands). Nah, nothing about a bunch of maps of Iraqi oil fields and charts on foreign investors who are likely to control them that would make people want to question what the fuck Cheney has been/is planning in his undisclosed location.