NYT: CHENEY FACES GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION IF MAN DIES

quoting NYT? ^ | 2/14/06 | Drudge

[clawrence3]

NYT: CHENEY FACES GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION IF MAN DIES... In Texas, Carlos Valdez, the district attorney in Kleberg County, said a fatality would immediately spur a new report from the local sheriff and, most likely, a grand jury investigation... MORE...

[clawrence3]

This could get interesting, real fast.

[MikefromOhio]

WTF?????

[TWohlford]

Man, a grand jury investigation for failing to pay for a $7 game bird stamp????

Those Texans are TOUGH on crime!

[jdm]

"...would immediately spur a new report..."

Revisionists, eh?

[zarf]

Wasn't Carlos Valdez the coffee guy, or was that Juan?

[SevenofNine]

Who said NY TIMES Screw them LOL!

[Graymatter]

NYT sorely needs a grand jury investigation of its own. Maybe several.

[MikefromOhio]

nah that was Juan.....

[MNJohnnie]

This is hysteric nonsense being drumbed up by the losers in the White House Bitch Squad because they did not get a personal call from the VP. It is HYSTERIC NONSENSE like all the other hysteric nonsense like Fitzmus, Abu Graibe, Rathergate etc. IT IS GARBAGE Journalism on display.

[clawrence3]

Is Kleberg County where the shooting took place? I thought I recall "Kenedy County".

[jdm]

"IF MAN DIES..."

What's with the "if"?

Don't they mean WHEN?

Everyone dies...

When does the "if" deadline end?

They plan to extend "if" indefinitely?

This is clearly a witch hunt against Cheney.

[clawrence3]

LOL

[mylife]

Its standard procedure to have a grand jury look at any shooting in which someone dies.

It doesn't necessarily make the shooter culpable The MSM is salivating over this ridiculous possibility

[Loyal Buckeye]

Maybe THE new york times will ask that the grand jury be combined with theirs regarding the NSA leaks.

[TC Rider]

They better keep a 24 hour a day guard around Whittington, I wouldn't put it pass a DUmmy to put a pillow over his head if they thought it would land Cheney in jail.

[clawrence3]

I report. You decide.

(Actually, I saw it on Drudge and could not believe it wasn't already here).

[Mo1]

Well this Ronny Earl wannabe is going to be disappointed

The guy is going to live

[pollyg107]

What a ridiculous headline. It is a certainty that the man will die. All of us will. Even if the man dies as a result of being shot, I find it very hard to believe that the grand jury will investigate what is so obviously an accident.

[SittinYonder]

Cheney should be locked up for not paying the $7 fee for the stamp - whatever it was for.

It serves any government official right. Hunting is nothing more than a government racket anymore. There's a license for this, a fee for that, a stamp, a sticker, a season. It's so regulated, no person can possibly avoid running afoul of the government when they try to hunt.

I remember hunting with my grandfather when I was a kid. We never paid a dime. We just got in the truck, rode down a dirt road and walked into the woods.

As far as him being charged if the guy dies ... the NYT wishes.

[fat city]

Throw in a death penalty and you got a good old fashioned Soviet Purge.

[kcvl]

BS!

[clawrence3]

I think it is in Cheney's best interest to send some of his own protective detail to a certain hospital ASAP.

[jdm]

If he dies in 2022, it will still be Cheney's fault.

Just watch.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

And if it's the typical investigation, (counting on whose county it is) the grand jury will say that it was an accidental situation and that Cheney will not be charged.

Deaths are often investigated by a grand jury when people shoot other people in Texas, as in home invasions, and self defense situations and other things. Doesn't mean they're out to prosecute.

But again, it will count on who's prosecuting.

And of course, the NYT might be in wishful thinking mode, too...

[stopem]

Funny ;)

[toldyou]

It was on a "joke" site. A thread saying the same was just pulled.

[clawrence3]

Especially if the police already ruled it an accident.

[The Fop]

I guess they think that the guy he shot was the one who leaked the goods on Valerie Plame. Actually, there were two gunmen, Karl Rove was hiding in the woods (he was also hiding in the grassy knoll in '63).

[jdm]

"I wouldn't put it pass a DUmmy to put a pillow over his head if they thought it would land Cheney in jail."

You said it. I was thinking what you said earlier -- one of the first things to pop into my head. I didn't think pillow, but same idea.

[Billthedrill]

And every single person on the NYT staff from Pinch on down is hoping that the poor guy snuffs it. Freakin' ghouls.

[CyberAnt]

And .. the blood thirsty media is salivating over the prospects of finally getting Cheney.

However, if that should happen .. and I don't think it will .. what about the person Bush might APPOINT to be the VP ..??

Just think about it for a minute .. what if Bush appoints George Allen. Allen then becomes an INCUMBENT VP and much more likely to take the top spot in 2008. I think the dems better be careful about what they wish for.

So far .. the dems wishes haven't turned out in their favor.

[frankjr]

Ooops...wrong Drudge story...I think...does David Gregory have a beard?

Ooops...wrong Drudge story...I think...does David Gregory have a beard?

[clawrence3]

It is still on the DrudgeReport.com - what "joke site" are you referring to?

[Darkwolf377]

Does Cheney have a say over the local hunting license fees?

[decal]

Yes, it was Kenedy County - the Armstrong Ranch, just south of the King Ranch (and a part of it at one time).

[sinkspur]

In Texas, Carlos Valdez, the district attorney in Kleberg County, said a fatality would immediately spur a new report from the local sheriff and, most likely, a grand jury investigation

Carlos must be a Democrat. No sane DA would present such a weak case to a Grand Jury.

Unless, of course, it could do some political damage.

[umgud]

MSM praying the man will die. Trust me, they are really hoping he'll die because they think his death will deliver them a "gotcha" against Cheney.

What a$$holes.

[bkepley]

Woodward's got the death-bed interview all ready to go.

[JerseyDvl]

Wow, the libs are really hoping that this man dies. They figure he is a Republican anyway and they gain a vote.

[mylife]

Heck Not only would a TX Grand Jury let him off the hook, Tx is likely to pay for your legal fees

[clawrence3]

Something don't smell right then.

[PilloryHillary]

This sounds ridiculous, but today a Fox News commentator said that VP Cheney could be charged with manslaughter if this man dies. So, the press is planting the seeds, in the hope that this poor man dies. Their behavior is appalling.

[frankjr]

Boy is the New York Times pissed about their Managing Editor, Publisher and Reporters being indicted for releasing National Security secrets!!! The NYT is a known enemy of America!

[Hoodat]

Any word yet on when the grand jury investigation of Vince Foster's shooting begins?

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

BREAKING NEWS: CNN and NY TIMES announce multi million dollar deal in New TV Network called "CheneyShoot TV" dedicated to following the Cheney hunting fiasco 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year via Cable and online via cheneyshoot.tv

[Recovering_Democrat]

BEYOND ABSURD!

But hey, let the loony left continue their implosion...it'll all work out in the end. :)

[pollyannaish]

This guy isn't even in the county where the event happened. Does he have any jurisdiction, or is he just a Dem trying to get his name into the NYTs?

[decal]

How so?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

No, but I'm pretty sure he owns an oversized pair of red novelty clown shows.

[SouthTexas]

Not the DA, he just answered a question.