TIME: Slow Leak: How Cheney Stalled News Reports of Hunting Accident

[DallasTim]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1159347,00.html?cnn=yes

The Vice President was the press strategist, and Karl Rove was the investigative reporter. Vice President Cheney overruled the advice of several members of the White House staff and insisted on sticking to a plan for releasing information about his hunting accident that resulted in a 20-hour, overnight delay in public confirmation of the startling incident, according to several Republican sources.

"This is either a cover-up story or an incompetence story," said a top Republican who is close to the White House and has rarely been critical of the Administration in the past five years. "Karl was constrained, as was the entire communications operation, because the Vice President had arranged for how this was to come out."

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. Why not? Cheney is the chimp and roves boss.

We all know that.

[aquart]

2. Oh, yeah. That man was drunk.

Ain't nuthin' so stubborn as a drunk.