Posted on 02/16/2006 8:39:46 AM PST by jhouston
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The Kenedy County Sheriff's Department feels at home with the Secret Service and the powerful people who go hunting on the Armstrong Ranch, but is out of its comfort zone with the media circus that the hunting accident involving Vice President Dick Cheney has attracted.
Sheriff Ramon Salinas III said no one in the federal government has told him or his deputies how to do their job. He was the one who decided not to go to the ranch to investigate until Sunday, the day after Cheney shot and wounded Austin lawyer Harry Whittington on a quail hunt. Salinas based the decision on witness accounts and advice from people on the ranch he knows and trusts, including a former sheriff.
"Everybody's been saying there's a cover-up from the time they heard about this," he said. "That is not true."
Salinas said he was barbecuing with his family at 5:30 p.m. Saturday when he received a call from sheriff's Capt. Charles Kirk.
"He told me he heard of a possible hunting accident on Armstrong Ranch," Salinas said.
Minutes later, Salinas got a call from a U.S. Secret Service agent.
"He said the reason he was calling was to officially notify the sheriff's department that the vice president was involved in that shooting accident."
Rush just played a clip of Carville saying the press should have access to Whittington's blood alcohol level reports.
Rush responds that the MINUTE Clinton releases his medical records (which he never did release despite all other presidents providing THEIR records), that maybe we'll negotiate. LOL
I heard that! And for that matter, what about releasing John Kerry's military records AND the late dated honorable discharge. And we never did learn what that PLAN was that Kerry claimed he had. To my knowledge no press clerk ever asked him what it was either.
"Shooting accidents happen - I got a purple heart for one..." - John Kerry
And don't forget this happened in "Kenedy" county.
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