{"id":6638,"date":"2006-02-16T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2006-02-16T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T17:51:12","slug":"local-law-enforcement-still-reviewing-cheney-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/local-law-enforcement-still-reviewing-cheney-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Local law enforcement still reviewing Cheney shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of lose ends, unanswered questions, and implausible explanations still surrounding Dick Cheney&#8217;s accidental shooting, and according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/latestnews\/stories\/021606dntexcheney.1515da40.html\">this report<\/a>, from the Dallas Morning News, local law enforcement isn&#8217;t quite done looking into the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kenedy County sheriff&#8217;s deputies have redoubled their efforts to investigate the case after criticism of their decision not to interview witnesses until a day after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Armstrong said she faxed a detailed account to deputies on Wednesday at the sheriff&#8217;s request. She said she would have done so sooner if she&#8217;d been asked and added that everyone at the ranch has been encouraged to tell the truth about the shooting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The local sheriff&#8217;s office is doing its due diligence, as it should. There&#8217;s some question as to why the Vice President delayed speaking to local law enforcement until Sunday morning, and whether deputies were turned away on Saturday night, and those deserve a thorough review.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m concerned, however, that it&#8217;s a little too late. The sheriff&#8217;s office has already talked to the relevant people involved and apparently cleared anyone of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when they &#8220;redouble their efforts&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of lose ends, unanswered questions, and implausible explanations still surrounding Dick Cheney&#8217;s accidental shooting, and according to this report, from the Dallas Morning News, local law enforcement isn&#8217;t quite done looking into the incident. Kenedy County sheriff&#8217;s deputies have redoubled their efforts to investigate the case after criticism of their decision not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}