Witnesses corroborate Cheney’s recollection of shooting

Via MSNBC:

NBC News filed an Open Records Act request with the sheriff’s office in Kenedy County, Texas, which investigated the shooting. Late Wednesday, NBC received two dozen pages of documents, including hand-written affidavits on the shooting never before made public.

There are six new affidavits from members of the shooting party. Most are dated Feb. 15, four days after the shooting. One is dated Feb. 17, almost a week after the vice president accidentally shot his friend, Harry Whittington. Some law enforcement experts say that’s an unusually long period of time, after a shooting, to gather written statements from witnesses. Ideally, they say, investigators like to get such affidavits when memories are still fresh, and can’t be influenced by other witness accounts.

In this case, all the accounts are similar and consistent with how Vice President Cheney has already described the incident. The statements say Cheney and his friend were about 30 yards apart when the vice president shot, aiming for a single bird. The statements all agree this was an accident, and no one places blame on Whittington.

Several of the statements say that no one was drinking alcohol during the late-afternoon hunt — again, consistent with the vice president’s account. One member of the hunting party does volunteer that she had a glass of wine at lunch, four hours before the accident.

Prepare for the “it’s a conspiracy to hide the truth – Cheney really WAS drunk!” background noise sure to follow in response to this news.

(Hat tip: Captain Ed)

Semi-related: Heh.

AM UPDATE: Wonder if all the anonymous sources listed here are still standing by their ‘stories’ today? (Hat tip ST reader Stoo – read more humorous commentary of the Capitol Hill Blue story via Mark in Mexico)

14 Responses to "Witnesses corroborate Cheney’s recollection of shooting"

Baklava says:

February 23, 2006 at 2:28 am

OK ST,

Now I’m sure you are bought and paid for by Bush/Cheney !!

Haven’t you understood by now that this kind of post will brand you as a Bush lacky/supporter and it is bad for your business.

Nobody can support Bush/Cheney after Katrina (which had the LARGEST rescue operation in American history) but denigrated as almost non-existent by liars….

OK. I had 4 beers tonight. Too much passion…
camojack says:

February 23, 2006 at 7:38 am

Speakin’ of which:
Cheney’s got a gun
(Crank it up!!!)
Lorica says:

February 23, 2006 at 10:17 am

OMG wine with lunch, then guns were involved!!!! I think Cheney has been bought by the extremely powerful French Whine and Cheese lobby. You know that he is orignally from an area that was orginally not part of the United States, so he must be bought and paid for. I bet he has even drinken an imported beer. OMG Who knows who pulls this man’s strings. I have no doubt that he even has hosted terrorists at his ranch in Montana, Or even Canadians. This is horrible news just horrible. – Lorica
Carl says:

February 23, 2006 at 10:55 am

For whatever it’s worth, even though eyewitness accounts prove no one was drunk, there are still people who hate Bush/Cheney so much that they will never accept it. For example, on the JWalk blog [a blog I check daily for interesting links even though he is showing an increasing dislike…even hatred…of conservatives, Republicans, Christianity, etc.] Mr. Walkenbach, someone whom I formerly accepted as someone who was of reasonable intelligence cites the Thompson article in his post as if it were gospel truth. Personally I have never heard of this “Doug Thompson” before and if the articles I read of typical of his journalistic integrity, then it reveals he really has little to none (which might make him a prime candidate for a job with the NY Times or LA Times). Common sense dictates that the named eyewitnesses in the NBC report upon outweight the unnamed sources Thompson cites but those adhereing to Thompson’s conspiracy theory only show how deluded they truly are.
steve says:

February 23, 2006 at 11:20 am

Was there any information about how many no-bid Iraqi contracts Cheney gave out before shooting his friend while getting some monica from Ms. Willeford? You Republicans only care about corruption if it is the Democrats doing it, right? Peace
PCD says:

February 23, 2006 at 11:53 am

steve, you are a slaner artist. You take character assassination to a new level.
sanity says:

February 23, 2006 at 11:56 am

Carl says, “For whatever it’s worth, even though eyewitness accounts prove no one was drunk, there are still people who hate Bush/Cheney so much that they will never accept it. “

And lo and behold, the next post is …steve.
Jim M says:

February 23, 2006 at 2:02 pm

If there was a battle of wits between conservatives and liberals the libs would be defenseless! Remember libs feel they don’t think there for it is hard to argue with someone that is totally illogical and can’t stay on subject. Liberals are like flies they buzz around eating s&*t and bothering people.
“

“Lord, I apologize and please be with the starving pygmies down in New Guinea. Amen.
Baklava says:

February 23, 2006 at 2:33 pm

Let’s put it this way. When I was a liberal (pre 1992), I knew a lot less. During my conversion I went to the library 3 times a week for a full year.

This was relatively easy as I mixed in my college class work with my research that I wanted to research on.
Carl says:

February 23, 2006 at 3:09 pm

steve said: “You Republicans only care about corruption if it is the Democrats doing it, right?”

Guess what, steve…I’m a registered Democrat and have been all my registered voting life (which is approaching almost 25 years). And thank you for proving my point so well.

Also to respond to the commentor known as “sanity“…
Rob says:

February 23, 2006 at 3:23 pm

Strangely, though, the guy who writes Capital Hill Blues worked for the ’84 Reagan campaign.

Cheney never should have had anything to drink until after the hunt. If he was drunk, someone ought to fire the Secret Service agents.

Was he drunk? We’ll never know for sure because of the way Cheney handled it. Way to go.
steve says:

February 23, 2006 at 3:58 pm

Until Cheney is charged with war crimes, we will never know about anything he and his mob have done. Peace
Jim M says:

February 24, 2006 at 8:36 am

Hey Steve “Cheney and his mob” I didn’t know that Cheney is the head of a Union along with being the VP? “WOW” Steve I guess that if Cheney is charged with War Crimes they will have to charge all the Congressmen who authorized us to go to War Democrats to!

Then we have Rob who said “If Cheney was drunk the Secret Service Agents should be fired” “WOW” another well thought out intelligent comment!

Also Rob wrote “Strangely, though, the guy who writes Capital Hill Blues worked for the â€˜84 Reagan campaign.” what does that have to do with the price of tea in china?

These guys aren’t out in left field they are orbiting the ball field from drinking way to much Kool-aid. Hey Steve one to many psychedelic drugs in the 60’s?
forest hunter says:

February 24, 2006 at 11:13 pm

And playing DEEEEEEEEEEEEEP left out, in the field of Kosmically influenced dreams, steve or (kids) for short…..drops another fly ball and the grounders continue getting by him regularly. Slander. It’s what’s for dinner. Un-enhanced facts are off the menu in general.

The last splatter must demonstrate steve’s tenacity that GDB was referring to in another thread.

Comments are closed.