Hey, I just thought of something...Re: Cheney & Whittington

[caledesi]

If Whittinton went straight away to the hospital, don't you think that the docs would have done an alchol test of him?

Hmmm....if they found alcohol in his blood, then it could possible explain why Cheney waited so long to report the accident.

Any medical people out there that would know about this?

Discuss.

[fryguy]

1. clearly cheney was drinking

why on earth would they wait? because if the shooting was reported right away the police, under their standard procedure, would have tested him for alcohol. but waiting 24 or even 12 hours would have made any test negative.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Speculation is already high (pun intended) that Cheney ...

... was drunk; thus the 20-hour wait, so he had time to sober up.

But you raise another interesting point: If Whittington WAS tested for blood-alcohol level, he OBVIOUSLY TESTED AS SOBER.

Otherwise, we would have heard all about it from the WH spin machine: "Whittington was drunk, which is why HE is the one at fault in this tragic accident."

Too drunk to watch his step, to make his presence known, to avoid the line of fire - blah, blah, blah.

So either he wasn't tested, or he was - and was (pardon another pun) dead sober at the time.

[indie_voter]

12. I bet the records will show the victim had some alcohol in his system

They were banking on hushing it all up, no mention of booze at all. If they said Whittington was drunk then the logical question was who else was drinking? Did he go on a bender by himself?

Now that the situation is spiraling out of their control, they are admitting to a beer or two (well they sort of did until MSNBC scrubbed the reference). What do you want to bet your scenario will now come in to play? It was all Whittington, he was drunk, Cheney only had a sip of beer.

Yes. Yes. That's it.

[Proud_Lefty]

3. Don't you think they waited to see if Whittington

was going to make it or not. If he wasn't going to survive, they would probably cover up the entire incident. If the secret service wouldn't even let officers interview Cheney, why would they be concerned about anyone learning of alcohol? Cheney believes he is above the law and he could care less what anyone thinks.

[napi21]

4. I'm sure that info is available at the hosp.

They ALWAYS do a blood test when you're admitted for an accident. Now they may not have done a Alcohol Level test, but the sample is still there somewhere. However, it's still impossible to get that info unless the patient auhorizes it's release! New privacy rights for medical info, ya know.

But you're right. The hops. most likely already has that info on Harry.

[Sydnie]

5. shot at 5:30 but arrived at the hospital at 8:30

They had THREE HOURS to scrub the scene and the cover up began.

[Tulum_Moon]

6. Of course he was drunk!

They made that man wait three hours! This is unbelievable!
I cant wait to see dick handcuffed and drug off to prison. I am so mad I could spit in his eye.

[CottonBear]

8. I'm sure the medical team that travels w/Cheny rendered aid to him.

US Presidents and VP's always travel with a full medical team and an ambulance and usually a helicopter. Just in case.

[napi21]

7. Which hospital? You do know that he was taken to one, and then airlifted

to the one in Corpus, don't you?

I'm not trying to defenet anyone here, but from everything I've read about this, he was immediately taken to a local hospital in the ambulance that was already on standby for CHENEY! They did some immediate emergency treatments and transferred him to another hospital in Corpus via helicopter.

I doubt it was 3 hours before he arrived at the first hosp.

[Sydnie]

11. I read that he was attended to by Cheney's staff first then

taken to the hospital. I *assumed* that meant the first hospital where they waited for the helicopter to fly him to the other hospital. I also assumed that they arrived at the first hospital at 8:30. That would have been the first time they encountered anyone outside of the scene and the clamp down. I might be mistaken though.

[Peace Patriot]

9. Does anyone else find it strange that the Secret Service let an old guy

with a gun wander off from the V-P's hunting party, disappear from view, then come back and surprise Cheney into shooting at him?

Think about it. Imagine yourself a Secret Service agent on that hunting party to protect Cheney. Would you, or your supervisor, permit that to happen--somebody with a gun out of sight of the V-P and yourselves?

It keeps bothering me. This story is way weird.

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. I cannot imagine the SS would be so careless around all those loaded guns

This part of their wild, improbable and outlandish explanation is the most difficult to believe.