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...Salinas, who released the fuller accounting of the incident after repeated Freedom of Information requests from the media, confirmed that the Vice President was first interviewed by his chief deputy at 8 a.m. Sunday morning-14 hours after the incident-at the ranch 21 miles south of Sarita, the county seat. Since Monday, the deputy, Gilberto San Miguel Jr., has also gotten statements from Cheney?s hunting partner Pamela Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, ranch owner Katharine Armstrong and her sister Sarita Armstrong Hixon, as well as two outriders helping with the hunt-Jerry and Oscar Medellin...
...image of Texas hunting left by the incident. Speaking in a raspy voice while sitting up in a chair at a Corpus Christi hospital, the 78-year-old lawyer told sheriff?s deputies from Kenedy County that no one had been drinking while hunting on the Armstrong Ranch last Saturday. They had been following all the rules-both Cheney and Whittington were dressed in blaze-orange vests and hats-and it was all just an accident that Cheney, following a single quail flying low into the sunset, hit him instead. Case closed. The county sheriff, Ramon Salinas, apparently agreed...
...Sunday morning, the deputy was greeted at the ranch?s main gate by the Secret Service and Border Patrol, who searched him and then accompanied him a mile down the road to the main house. The Vice President, says San Miguel, shook his hand and promised to cooperate as they sat down to talk. Cheney, he says in the report, confirmed that he was part of a three-car hunting party consisting of himself, Harry Whittington, Ambassador Willeford, the two Armstrong women, and a three-man hunt team...
...wasn?t until Tuesday-two days after the shooting-that the deputy went back to the scene of the shooting in Comal pasture, about 4 miles west of US Highway 77, which runs by the Armstrong ranch. That day, he asked for affidavits from the Armstrong women, as well as from Willeford and the guide...
...agreed, that she would go make the announcement, that is that she'd put the story out," he said. "And I thought that made good sense for several reasons. First of all, she was an eyewitness-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. And she wanted to go to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, which...