Neocons quick with the brooms once again...

According to the Dallas Morning News (registration required, see LP thread here):

Sitting in the hunting car, Armstrong didn't know there was a problem until she saw Cheney's security detail running. "The first thing that crossed my mind was (Cheney) had a heart problem," she said.

Yet, according to Cheney's own words, in his interview with Brit Hume:

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.

So, did Cheney lie in his interview, or was the AP report wrong?

Why does it seem so difficult to get a simple story straight, such as how many drinks a person had on a day when he shot somebody?

Hume indicated that Cheney called last Saturday's accidental shooting "one of the worst days of my life," but that the vice president was certain that he handled it correctly by waiting nearly a day to make it public. He also revealed that Cheney disclosed having a beer with lunch that day, but stressed that it was several hours before the shooting occurred.

Ranch owner Katharine Armstrong has said no one hunting that day had any beer. The Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday that it had been told that the hunters that day "broke for a lunch of antelope, jicama salad and camp bread, washed down with Dr. Pepper." Armstrong later modified her remarks, saying there may have been beer in coolers but she didn't think anyone who was hunting that day had any.

CNN today reports that Armstrong had told CNN she never saw Cheney or Whittington "drink at all on the day of the shooting until after the accident occurred, when the vice president fixed himself a cocktail back at the house."

Cheney admitted to the one beer at lunch during his interview with Brit Hume, but again, this seems to bring credibility issues in regarding Ms. Armstrong who apparently stated that nobody drank at all.

If Cheney were drinking, that would explain the delay in reporting the story, and it would also give him time to consume enough alcohol after the fact to cloud any investigation into whether or not he had been intoxicated at the time of the shooting.

In the end, it seems to me that should Mr. Whittington die, there is probable cause to arrest the VP for negligent manslaughter, and to proceed forward with a grand jury hearing.

Of course, it will never happen, because as we now know after the wire-tapping story, our elected officials are above the law.