Casting more doubt on Cheney's 30 Yard "Pepper" alibi

Secret Service stalls and delays for Cheney
Cover-up in progress and Shotgun ballistics don't match-up!

Cheney Shooting Update
By Alex Jones

What we had deducted almost immediately after Cheney machine began rolling on this shooting is now finally starting to filter out into the rest of the media: It is not only unlikely that Whittington was injured in the way he reportedly was if Cheney had shot him from 30 yards it is impossible."

After reviewing the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife report on the shooting, there is no doubt that this is a cover-up.

The pattern of the birdshot depicted in the diagram on the report indicates about a foot spread from cheek to chest.

As we previously reported, birdshot is not like a traditional bullet. Birdshot is composed of hundreds of tiny lead BB's with very low mass which are designed to spread out and slow down very quickly. The idea is basically to shoot out a bunch of tiny pellets to catch a bird that may be taking wing at the instant it recognizes the shot has been fired. Many points ensure greater likelyhood of hitting the target.

These pellets are incredibly tiny and the further they get away from the gun, the slower and less forceful they become. So at a distance of about 90 feet (or 30 yards as reported by the White House) the pellets would have hit Whittington with the force equivilent to a gentle shove and have left maybe some tiny surface marks on any exposed skin.

The only way to account for the pattern indicated on the TDPW report is if Cheney was about 10 feet away from Whittington when he shot him.

Reports and press releases that followed the event explained that some of the pellets had become lodged in his heart tissue. The only way this is possible, the only way that the tiny pellets designed to spread over distance could have maintained the force necessary to penetrate Whittington's hunting vest, clothing, skin, muscle, bone and finally into his rock-hard heart would have been if they came from a much shorter distance than the White House is claiming.

The initial reports have Whittington making jokes and feeling fine after the shooting, but doctors would have been able to diagnose with a simple x-ray that there was a chunk of metal in his heart tissue immediately upon receiving him. Now that he has taken a turn for the worse, they are in scramble-mode to cover-up what really happened in case he dies.

For more including Ballistic force test results -

http://www.infowars.com/...

•  Dallas News also reports

  Dallas News also reports

  The doctors were back around Monday morning. They have mostly been concerned with injuries to his throat.

  She said her dad is back to joking. "One of the surgeons said, 'We'll get this BB from near the liver, and go ahead and get that other one at the same time.' The surgeon looked at him and said, 'that way we'll kill two birds with one stone.' And he said, "I consider that a poor choice of words.' "

  Throat injuries...another BB near the liver? We haven't heard anything about this.

  by etherapy on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 12:14:20 PM PDT

•  Revise 'lead' to 'metal BB's' thanx

  by Spud1 on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 12:15:58 PM PDT

•  Calling Mythbusters

  This sounds like a job for Mythbusters!  They could do tests with the same type of shotgun, 7.5 bird shot, and a dummy made from ballistics gel to see what sort of spread, penetration, and number of metal bits in the body one would get from 30 yards.

  by CA Pol Junkie on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 12:52:14 PM PDT

  •  Or maybe CSI

    could do it, or Law and Order, or maybe even the Police, that would be the best bet!

    However, the Mythbusters do get to the bottom of every myth there is (peeing on 3rd rail, lifting a boat with ping pong balls, etc).

    My feeling is this will turn out to be a non-story.  Not because it isn't a story, but seriously, look at the NSA hearings.

    by don the tin foil on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 01:35:14 PM PDT

•  Thanks for the new information

  Recommend this to add to the "puzzle" of information that is coming out.

  What's lost in all this "cover-your-ass" for Cheney is that Mr. Wittington lays in a hospital bed, his body full of pellets his future uncertain.

  It's surprising that his family doesn't want to make a statement.

  How can an "investigation" be complete without having interview everyone immediately after the accident? Amazing.

  by hmbnancy on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 01:12:34 PM PDT

  •  gentle shove?

    While I have no doubt that the VP has lots to hide in this shooting incident I need to point out that to be hit by 7 1/2 shot at 30 yards would be no picnic. I grew up hunting on the plains of Kansas and also trap shooting at a local club. A shotgun blast, even with 7 1/2 shot, at thirty yards will bring down a pheasant and it will powder a clay pigeon. This guy is lucky he didn't lose his eyesight. That said, I am having trouble understanding how a pellet shot from 30 yards away could have made it to this man's heart.....

    by realalaskan on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 01:26:45 PM PDT

•  choke

  
  Doesn't the choke also have effect on the spread?

  by vermontah on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 02:07:48 PM PDT