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Originally posted by BT

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Originally posted by berndog

Used to be the secret service wouldn’t allow anyone else to have guns around Cheney. Now they won’t let him have one either. [:D]

What seems not at all funny to me is that the suggestion has been made that the Secret Service prevented the local sheriff from talking to Cheney about the matter until at least the next morning, too late to ascertain whether, for example, he had been drinking. It has further been suggested that they wouldn’t have done that unless ordered to by someone.

Having grown up hunting, I think this was probably a true accident (as Alan Simpson, someone I’ve always respected, pointed out, the "victim" may have been at fault for not making his location clearer), but I think everything that was done after the fact look like an arrogant bungle, from blocking the sort of local investigation that any of us would have had to go through to the way the incident became public.

According to the Secret Service the county sheriff had made arrangements to send deputies out the following morning to interview the vice president. The idea of the county sheriff being involved is interesting, as a hunting accident is not within his jurisdiction. The matter is handled, by law, by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. That agency determined that it was an accident.