Timeline of Shooting - (good article)

[sandnsea]

This has alot of info in it, including all the names of all the people who were there last week-end. Looks to me like it was all couples, except for the Cheney's. But the shooting still doesn't add up to previous comments. They say the reason they didn't contact the press is because they were worried about poor old Harry, not thinking anything at all about the press. Until the next morning. There's also some info in here about the cops being notified, coming out to the ranch, etc. And a border patrol guy who was guarding the ranch and didn't even know anything had happened. Lots of stuff to dig into.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/16/america/web.0216timeline.php

[Peace Patriot]

1. Thanks for the post! But I don't believe a word of this article--or,

rather, I don't believe any information provided by Katherine Armstrong or Pamela Pitzer Willeford. They had four days to coordinate their stories with Cheney.

One of my chief questions has to do with the Secret Service--of which virtually nothing is said, except that they were there. How on earth can they have let an old guy--one of a bunch of old guys playing at being "hunters"--gun in hand, disappear from view, to an unseeable location, and then somehow "suddenly" show up behind Cheney and "surprise" him. I just don't buy it. According to Cheney in his Faux interview, he had moved a hundred yards away from Whittington, while Whittington searched for a shot quail. The Secret Service let someone with a gun cross disappear and move across a hundred yards toward Cheney?

Another glaring omission in this article has to do with Cheney's obsessive repetition, in the Faux interview, that Katherine Armstrong was an "eyewitness" to the shooting, and that she saw "all of it" while he only saw "part of it" (whatever that may mean). He says this in trying to justify Armstrong being the best person to contact the press (i.e., a tiny local newspaper where she "knew the reporters"). He says it four times. But no one has yet asked her--that I know of--WAS she an "eyewitness"? This IHT article and others have her saying she was in the jeep when the shooting occurred, and contains no details indicating that she was an eyewitness or "saw it all."

The other thing Cheney was obsessed with was his purported desire that the story they put out be "accurate." (He says that EIGHT times.) With Cheney, you can safely presume that whatever he says--especially if he says it eight times--the opposite is true. So this is a lying, bullshit, well-coordinated, coverup story, with Armstrong in one case repeating Cheney details almost word for word (the bit about Cheney rushing over to Whittington after he shot him).

That's my take on it, anyway. What may have really been going on at that ranch is anybody's guess.