NYT re: Cheney> local police officers were turned away Saturday night

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/politics/15cheney.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

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Eric Zahren, a Secret Service spokesman, said the shooting occurred at 5:50 p.m. Central time, slightly later than the White House had said at first. After helping Mr. Whittington into an ambulance, the agents in Mr. Cheney's security detail returned to their command post on the hunting ranch by 6:30 p.m. The Secret Service supervisor in McAllen, Tex., had called the sheriff in Kenedy County to tell him about the shooting by 7 p.m., Mr. Zahren said.

The Secret Service supervisor arranged with the sheriff for Mr. Cheney to be interviewed at the ranch at 10 a.m. Sunday, Mr. Zahren said. But the vice president's office changed the time to 8 a.m.


While there were reports, some from the sheriff himself, that a deputy had been dispatched to the ranch on Saturday night and been turned away, Mr. Zahren said that some local police officers had heard about the shooting on a scanner when an ambulance was sent to pick up Mr. Whittington. They showed up at the ranch unsolicited. Private guards, not Secret Service agents, Mr. Zahren said, turned the police away because they did not know anything had occurred.

This is one of the strangest stories, but what else is new with BushCo...

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1. Bullshit

Like the Secret Service is going to use rent-a-cops to watch the gate of the ranch and that there are no communications with the rent-a-cops.

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2. the bs meter is going berserk!

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3. Big-time bullshit.

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4. Private guards? Turned them away? When they heard there was

an incident? Sounds like they are not much in the way of guards. Or they are lying.


"Private guards, not Secret Service agents, Mr. Zahren said, turned the police away because they did not know anything had occurred."