Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Ambassador to Switzerland, Pamela Willeford: Not shot

* Josh: "One other point about the Cheney shotgun goof.
There's been some questioning about why the White House waited a day to notify the press about what happened. Apparently, they never did. They left it to the property owner, Katharine Armstrong, to announce it to the public."

* Ron has more at RawStory: "The U.S. ambassador to Switzerland was the third member of a hunting party which went awry after Vice President Dick Cheney accidently shot 78-year-old Austin, Texas attorney Harry Whittington... Willeford and her immediate family contributed a total of $23,200 to Republicans during the 2000, 2002 and 2004 election cycles, including $7,000 to the Bush campaigns and an additional $500 to the Bush-Cheney recount fund established after the 2000 election.... it appears that Ambassador Willeford's name has been left out of all of the media reports, so far."

* Brad has more about Willeford - including: " McClellan was busy with his greatest tap-dance yet today, avoiding questions about how a Vice-President of the United States can shoot somebody and have it go wholly unreported for a full 24 hours, he didn't need to dance around about this one"

update: more on Willeford here

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