Sherriff’s report
By on Feb 16th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
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Is it just me?
I’ve seen the time of the incident listed as 6:30pm. The report says 5:30pm. Is this a time zone issue or what? Someone please explain.
February 16th, 2006 at 2:25 pmHe he…. anyone notice Captain Kirk was involved?
February 16th, 2006 at 2:26 pm“He was concerned that this incident would bring a bad imagine to Texas”
Good job proofreading your report, Deputy Fife. I’m not buying this account one bit. Anyone else?
February 16th, 2006 at 2:30 pmThis report says that the Chief Deputy Officer Gilberto San Miguel recieved a call from Sheriff Ramon Salinas at 18:30 (6:30 pm) on Saturday and was told to show up the next day Sunday at 08:00 (8:00 am).
WTF!!!
He was instructed by his supervisor to not investigate until the next day?
Looks to me like Sheriff Ramon Salinas is in on the cover-up.
February 16th, 2006 at 2:30 pmWell, THIS is really illuminating.
I hope these are the same guys who show up to investigate the next time I shoot an elderly man in the face.
I saw more rigorous investigations performed by Orson Welles in “A Touch of Evil.”
February 16th, 2006 at 2:36 pmwho brought the rotten trout to the table
February 16th, 2006 at 2:37 pm#1 – It looked to me like the reporting call was made at 6:30, and the incident happened at 5:30. Not the best police report I’ve ever seen. It looked to me like Whittington had had time to work out his story. He’s worried about hunting in Texas looking bad? Whatever. Let’s move on.
February 16th, 2006 at 2:40 pmThese cops couldn’t have locked up Cheney even if they wanted to – - the cell was already occupied by Otis.
February 16th, 2006 at 2:41 pmI agree with #3. I would like to see other reports filed in the past by Chief Deputy Gilberto San Miguel. It seems like this one is too perfect.
February 16th, 2006 at 2:44 pmI don’t buy the whole “bad imagine to Texas” thing.
Now, if he had said “bad imagine to getting shot in the face by the sitting Vice President and then everyone conspiring to figure out how to spin the fact that the VP was negligent, may have been drinking, and evasive when discussing the subject….”
That, I’d buy.
February 16th, 2006 at 2:46 pmLet this be a lesson to all you seniors out there. Don’t ask the Vice President for help with your Medicare forms. Just look what happened to Mr. Whittington.
February 16th, 2006 at 2:51 pmSo, what happened is exactly as I thought on the very first day. Cheney shot behind himself. A huge no no in gun safety.
Here is the artist rendoring:
February 16th, 2006 at 2:53 pmTry this:
ftp://younme.kicks-ass.net/Bush%20Stuff/20060211%20Cheney%20Shoots%20Whittington.JPG
February 16th, 2006 at 3:07 pm“He was concerned that this incident would bring a bad imagine to Texas†– - Uh huh, like the Texans running D.C. haven’t already reduced the Texas cachet to soot.
February 16th, 2006 at 3:12 pmThe sheriff’s report is dated the 12th. Didn’t the sheriff or one of his deputies try to interview Cheney on the 11th? The day of the shooting?
February 16th, 2006 at 3:15 pmokay, now I call complete bullshit on this report. The second page has the Chief Deputy Officer saying this on the second page:
This is an ooficial police report, not a blog, not an e-mail, not an off the cuff conversation. This is official business. Having a father who was a Los Angeles Sheriff for 36 years, I can tell you that this is not how you write a report.
February 16th, 2006 at 4:22 pmMore naivete,I fear. Police reports have been known to disappear in small towns after incidents a lot less important than this.At least they posted this one. I wonder who at the White House reviewed it before its release?
February 16th, 2006 at 4:51 pmIt’s going to take some serious undercover work with a quail throated warbler to get to the bottom of this.
Anybody know if Vegas has posted odds on this scandal?
#16 Good point. This wasn’t a car accident for which you would get a different version from each person you interview, but a shooting of a 78-year-old man in the face. Aren’t the little discrepancies in everybody’s story what usually leads the police to believe someting is being covered up? It’s the details that matter.
Armstrong was put forth by Mr. Cheney’s office because she was a “witness”, yet she apparently couldn’t have seen Mr. Whittington get shot because when she saw the Secret Service agents running, she thought that Mr. Cheney had a heart attack. If she saw Mr. Whittington get shot, she wouldn’t have assumed that the Secret Service agents were going to Mr. Cheney’s aid. So many holes in the “official story”. Now where has that happened before…?
February 16th, 2006 at 5:03 pm#16 – In my perfect world, I would have the Deputy write a report for both interviews — even if they said “pretty much” the same thing. Defense attorneys love that kind of laziness.
February 16th, 2006 at 5:13 pmEither this is the Mayberry police department with Barney Fife in charge or this is a major cover up of drunken, rich and powerful white people hunting farmed quail.
February 16th, 2006 at 9:06 pmRemember 95% of the population in town work at that ranch.
They were no match for anything those guests of the owner wanted to do, say or deny.
We will never know what really happened and that’s not all bad in Cheney’s camp — can’t prove anything now — it’s too late.