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Texas Cops Release Cheney Shooting Report
Smoking Gun ^ | 2/16/06

Posted on 02/16/2006 11:12:36 AM PST by areafiftyone

FEBRUARY 16--Five days after Vice President Dick Cheney shot a hunting partner, a Texas sheriff today released his department's report on the incident, which investigators have formally classified as an accident. A copy of the Kenedy County Sheriff's Department report, released this afternoon by Sheriff Ramon Salinas, can be found below. The sheriff's report includes information provided to deputies by assorted witnesses as well as Cheney and Harry Whittington, the 78-year-old lawyer who was struck in the face, neck, and chest by the vice president's wayward birdshot. Cheney was interviewed Sunday morning, more than 14 hours after the Saturday afternoon incident. There is no indication in the sheriff's report that he was questioned about alcohol consumption by Chief Deputy Gilberto San Miguel, who interviewed the vice president and authored the report. Whittington, who was questioned Monday at a Corpus Christi hospital, declined to have his Q&A session taped and told investigators that "foremost there was no alcohol during the hunt" and that everyone in the hunting party was wearing proper "blaze orange" attire. In a Fox News interview yesterday, Cheney said that he downed one beer at lunch Saturday afternoon. On Tuesday, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department issued the first report on the Cheney shooting incident. (5 pages)

I am only going to post this much because the report is much too long. You can click on the link to read all of it.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesmokinggun.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheney; harrywhittington; quailgate; shooting
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To: SE Mom

LOL.

#3 (Things you'll never hear)
We need to let the Armstrong family get on with healing; instead we need to cover the alarming nuclear developments in Iran and discuss the danger it poses to the West. (White House Press Corps)


21 posted on 02/16/2006 11:22:26 AM PST by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: areafiftyone
Who really owned the guns involved?

Were they 'Saddams'.....hee,hee......

/sarcasm

22 posted on 02/16/2006 11:23:06 AM PST by maestro
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To: dangus

>> a hunting party that consisted of himself... Jerry Medellin, ... Oscar Medellin... <<

I think I'll post to Daily KOS that Cheney had to shoot someone to be accepted into the Medellin cartel.

O shucks, they all are dancing in the streets that the Medellin RUNS things now...


23 posted on 02/16/2006 11:24:05 AM PST by dangus
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To: SE Mom

Whittington not Armstrong


24 posted on 02/16/2006 11:24:18 AM PST by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: areafiftyone
Cheney was interviewed Sunday morning, more than 14 hours after the Saturday afternoon incident.

MSNBC: CHRONOLOGY... What happened in the Cheney shooting (All times ET)...........6:30 p.m.: Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter Harry Whittington while aiming for a bird............7:50 p.m.: The head of the Secret Service office in McAllen, Texas, calls the Kenedy County sheriff to report the accident. The sheriff asks to speak to Cheney, and they schedule an interview for 9 a.m. Sunday.

25 posted on 02/16/2006 11:24:55 AM PST by Polybius
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To: areafiftyone
It's nice to know that the next time I accidentally shoot someone in the face, I don't have to report it to the police until the next day!

To tell you the truth I wasn't aware that the police generally cut people that kind of slack - well, now I know otherwise.

26 posted on 02/16/2006 11:26:13 AM PST by skeptical_con
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To: areafiftyone

Thanks for the post. I have been reading the site a couple days for great info.


27 posted on 02/16/2006 11:26:54 AM PST by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN - Support our troops. I *LOVE* my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
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To: bwteim

LOL...and the list could go on..and on:)


28 posted on 02/16/2006 11:29:08 AM PST by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: skeptical_con
To tell you the truth I wasn't aware that the police generally cut people that kind of slack - well, now I know otherwise.

One of the law enforcement officers said early this week that out there, the feds run the show as far as what goes on when dealing with VIPs. He wasn't necessarily complaining, just stating a fact.

I'm still pretty stunned that Cheney shot at a bird that flew behind him. That was worse than what I initially thought.
29 posted on 02/16/2006 11:29:36 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: ladtx
What's the problem. SOP for a Texas quail hunt - One beer? that must be a West Texas quail hunt; they only got about 6-7 birds up there.
30 posted on 02/16/2006 11:31:05 AM PST by SF Republican
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To: skeptical_con
How do you get to "the next day" when the sheriff notified the deputy an hour after the accident??
31 posted on 02/16/2006 11:31:32 AM PST by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: clawrence3

Now the COPS are part of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy too?!

/sarc""

Don't forget the Secret Service.


32 posted on 02/16/2006 11:31:35 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: areafiftyone
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33 posted on 02/16/2006 11:32:11 AM PST by girlscout
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To: Polybius

I note in your MSNBC link that they give all times differently than the Sheriff's report and realize that the MSNBC chronology is all given in Eastern Standard time. I find that illustrative of the DC centrict thinking of the media in general.


34 posted on 02/16/2006 11:32:44 AM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: areafiftyone

Well, no wonder! The victim was a lawyer, wearing a red shirt, and Captain Kirk's jurisdiction!


35 posted on 02/16/2006 11:33:11 AM PST by Jonah Hex ("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
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To: girlscout

ROFLMAO!!! PRICELESS!!!


36 posted on 02/16/2006 11:33:21 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: SE Mom

How do you think FR would treat it if it happened to John Edwards?


37 posted on 02/16/2006 11:33:30 AM PST by lugsoul ("He didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do." - Mary Matalin)
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To: ridesthemiles

Well, yeah, but that goes without saying that Secret Service are all lying scumbags - in fact, ANYONE who carries a gun for law enforcement "duties" is suspect at this point.


38 posted on 02/16/2006 11:34:05 AM PST by clawrence3
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To: areafiftyone

LOL! I received that little number in an email today and just had to share it.


39 posted on 02/16/2006 11:34:46 AM PST by girlscout
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To: skeptical_con
It's nice to know that the next time I accidentally shoot someone in the face, I don't have to report it to the police until the next day!

The Secret Service notified the Sheriff's Office within an hour of the shooting. They didn't choose to interview Cheney until the next day.

40 posted on 02/16/2006 11:35:02 AM PST by Dog Gone
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