Via Fark
[Apparently he may have been well toasted when the accident occurred and needed to sober up.](http:// http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8184.shtml)
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Fixed link.
Huh. I wonder if a guest of mine were the subject of a law enforcement inquiry I’d be able to tell the cops to bugger off. The words “obstruction of justice” and “impeding an inquiry” spring to mind.
Huh. I wonder if a guest of mine were the subject of a law enforcement inquiry I’d be able to tell the cops to bugger off. The words “obstruction of justice” and “impeding an inquiry” spring to mind.
What a reliable source…
- always suspected those Secret Service guys were a bunch of babbler mouths… * Bawahahahahhaa
If true, not horribly surprising. Nothing will come of it. Imagine this was Bubba… not Bill, just a Bubba and his friends, and they get plastered and go hunting unsafely. Doc’s got to cut a bullet out, and everyone feels really bad about it, but… there wouldn’t be any charges pressed either way. Shame, as far as gun safety is concerned, a bad example, but…
Eh.
Since when do Secret Service agents talk to anyone about the people they protect? Smells like garbage to me.
While I wouldn’t put it past Cheney, I too doubt the SS agents talked.
I thought it was the Secret Service’s job to protect the people they work for…
Get them plastered and give them guns doesn’t sound like that.
But maybe they don’t get to tell them no either. I dunno. Wish it was true and he gets busted for intox manslaughter or something, but it probably isn’t and he never will.
In other news the CIA has said the White House had prior knowledge that Cheney was going to shoot someone in the face.
Source
Oh wait, this isn’t a joke thread?
Unless they’re standing in front of a Congressional committee, Secret Service guys typically don’t talk about what they’ve seen until many years later, after everyone who might possibly be embarassed or incriminated is dead.
I’m skeptical of this reporter and/or his source.
Capitol Hill Blue exists, IMHO, because nature demanded a counterbalance to bad right-wing sources from WorldNetDummy to the Swift Boat Liars. Now we’ve got a source of too-good-to-be-true stories on the left as well. Wonderful. :rolleyes:
The so-called direct sources are all unnamed, as well as the second and third-hand accounts. One minute its “we talked with a number of administration officials who are privy to inside information” and the next minute “according to people who talked with the agents and others present at the outing” and that “the report notes” people in the hunting party had been drinking and “sources said” an agent requested reassignment after the accident.
Doug Thompson seems really comfortable putting his name to an article with no direct attribution identifying the people making these accusations.
That statement is total bullshit.
The Kennedy County Sheriff’s Office was notified twice within 20 minutes of the incident. Their investigation showed that it was an accident, plain and simple.
I don’t think there’s any doubt about that.
Unfortunately, the people who would desperately like to believe that the link in the OP is reliable information are likely to dismiss the official documentation out of hand, since there’s no mention of those calls in the original report, the supplemental report documenting those the calls wasn’t filed until four days later, and the person who called it in is identified as “Captain Kirk.” 
Especially since nobody actually, you know, died.
“He pulled the trigger drunk” is no improvement over “He pulled the trigger out of incompetence”.
Those are only serious issues if a blowjob’s involved.
Although there has been another set of rumors about Pam Willeford’s role in the incident.