Eyewitnesses: Man Ran Into Cheney’s Knife
Vice President Cheney accidentally killed a man during a previous
hunting trip, the White House reluctantly confirmed today after denying
the incident several times. During a deer hunting expedition on a
friend’s eight billion dollar ranch, a man “ran into Cheney’s knife”
several times while Cheney was gutting and dressing a deer, wealthy
Republican Party donors and eyewitnesses said.
The man who died was Willford Buchs, a Bush family accountant who
“took care of the books” for the Bushes and several Bush companies, and
was later appointed Director of the Texas Accounting Commission after
the previous commissioner was dismissed for revealing irregularities in
the accounting practices of Buchs’s clients.
Buchs’s death was ruled a suicide by Sen. Dr. Bill Frist, who
examined Mr. Buchs by polaroid. Cheney’s involvement with the death has not previously been disclosed,
although it occurred a little more than a year ago. The incident was
uncovered by the press after reporters discovered Buchs’s mummified
carcass on the ground last week and began asking questions.
Questions have arisen as to why the White House failed to report the incident
to the press or the authorities for more than a year. “The Vice
President’s office deferred to the people who owned the knife that he
borrowed for the expedition,” said Candy Ricks, a spokesman for the
Veep. “It really was up to them.” Ricks also maintained that it was not
necessary to report the incident to the authorities because the Vice
President and his party were authorities, “and very powerful and influential ones, too, I might add.”
Ricks denied that Mr. Cheney needed to exercise more caution during
hunting trips. “Mr. Cheney is every bit as careful with hunting as he
is with civil liberties, foreign policy and democracy,” she said.
The New York Herald Sun 