First he says:
"THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, my first reaction, Brit, was not to think: I need to call the press. My first reaction is: My friend, Harry, has been shot and we've got to take care of him. That evening there were other considerations. We wanted to make sure his family was taken care of. His wife was on the ranch. She wasn't with us when it happened, but we got her hooked up with the ambulance on the way to the hospital with Harry. He has grown children; we wanted to make sure they were notified, so they didn't hear on television that their father had been shot. And that was important, too.
But we also didn't know what the outcome here was going to be. We didn't know for sure what kind of shape Harry was in. We had preliminary reports, but they wanted to do a CAT scan, for example, to see how -- whether or not there was any internal damage, whether or not any vital organ had been penetrated by any of the shot. We did not know until Sunday morning that we could be confident that everything was probably going to be okay."
THEN he says:
"Q When did the family -- when had the family been informed? About what time?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, his wife -- his wife knew as he was leaving the ranch --
Q Right, what about his children?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I didn't make the calls to his children, so I don't know exactly when those contacts were made. One of his daughters had made it to the hospital by the next day when I visited. But one of the things I'd learned over the years was first reports are often wrong and you need to really wait and nail it down. And there was enough variation in the reports we were getting from the hospital, and so forth -- a couple of people who had been guests at the ranch went up to the hospital that evening; one of them was a doctor, so he obviously had some professional capabilities in terms of being able to relay messages. But we really didn't know until Sunday morning that Harry was probably going to be okay, that it looked like there hadn't been any serious damage to any vital organ. And that's when we began the process of notifying the press."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/15/AR2006021502005.htmlSo, first he makes excuses that he was too busy to let the press know what was going on because he was busy notifying the family, then he says he wasn't involved in notifying the family. Which is it, Lying Dick?
He also says they didn't want to talk to the press because they thought the injury was only superficial (which is what they told them press anyway - 24 HOURS LATER!).
Cheney's interview is nothing but a tissue of lies. :puke:
He's hiding something.
The 'eyewitness' lie regarding Armstrong is also a DIRECT QUOTE:
"THE VICE PRESIDENT: I said Karl has hunted at the Armstrong, as well, and we're both good friends of the Armstrongs and of Katherine Armstrong. And Katherine suggested, and I agreed, that she would go make the announcement, that is that she'd put the story out. And I thought that made good sense for several reasons. First of all, she was an eye-witness. She'd seen the whole thing. Secondly, she'd grown up on the ranch, she'd hunted there all of her life. Third, she was the immediate past head of the Texas Wildlife and Parks Department, the game control commission in the state of Texas, an acknowledged expert in all of this"
He claims she was an eyewitness and "She'd seen the whole thing", yet she claims the first thing she saw was everyone running and that she thought Clicky Dick had a heart attack.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Edit to add: Cheney says: "THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, who is going to do that? Are they going to take my word for what happened? There is obviously --" That's the most truthful thing Cheney says in the whole interview. And the reason WHY we don't believe you, Click, is because you're LYING!!!
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