A Quail Hunter Has 5 Pointed Questions For Cheney

[Clara T]

Quail Hunter Has Pointed Questions For Cheney
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2006-02-17 13:02. Media

By Don Williams
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/opinion

* Why did the Cheney team haul the bleeding Whittington an hour and 20
minutes north to a branch of the Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in
Kingsville, rather than have him flown directly to the more resourceful
parent hospital in Corpus Christi where he wound up about three hours after
the event?

* Why did guards turn away a deputy who drove out to interview the hunting
party? In other words why did no authorities take a statement from Cheney
until some 14 hours after the incident?

* Why did Katharine Armstrong, who phoned the local newspaper, say there was
"no--zero, zippo" drinking before Cheney acknowledged having a beer with his
lunch?

* Why did the Secret Service not know the position of everyone with a loaded
gun in the vicinity of the vice-president?

* Why three versions of how the news broke? One in which Armstrong claims
she made the decision to phone the local media, one in which Cheney asked
her to phone the paper, and, finally, Cheney's answer to a question from
Hume, suggesting Karl Rove played a role in handling the media?

Still, those who say this story has received comparatively more media
attention than it merits are right-though not in the way they imagine.

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