Infowars.com's Alex Jones has a 10-minute video report including a birdshot ballistics test that he says points to a cover-up in the Cheney shooting incident.
Harry Whittington was shot at close range, between 15 and 18 feet, not the 90 claimed by Dick Cheney and the Secret Service. It is now clear why they refused to let Sherriff's Deputies interview Cheney for over 13 hours and why they claimed that Whittington's injuries were superficial when in truth they were grevious.
The mainstream media is ignoring this literal smoking gun evidence. Anytime they wish, the local police can conduct their own ballistics tests and they will have the exact same findings. The media can conduct their own tests. The ballistics of shotguns and birdshot is well known to tens of millions of Americans who hunt fowl.
We have now scientifically proven with an engineer and a police officer on-site conducting the test that the American people are being lied to and a cover-up is in progress.
Link (Thanks, JR!)
Reader comment:RC reminded me that this video is the from the source that had the report claiming "RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them." That makes the ballistics report less credible, in my opinion.
Reader comment: Matthew McCormick says:
Whittington was hit with shot from mid-torso to his face, right? If so, it's impossible for him to have been "fifteen to eighteen feet" from Cheney when Cheney fired. Shot simply does not spread that quickly. It's a common misconception that shotgun pellets spread quickly, such that one only has to aim in a general direction to hit a target– this is quite incorrect. If Whittington had been hit from only 15-18 feet away, the mass of the shot would have still been quite concentrated, and he'd be dead right now.
http://www.firearmsid.com/A_distshotpatt.htm
Even from Wikipedia: It should be kept in mind that the vaunted "wide pattern" of a cylinder/improved cylinder choked shotgun is often much overstated. The typical home defense shot is seldom over ten or fifteen feet. At these relatively short ranges, the shot charge never expands to more than a few inches. The shooter should be within twenty to thirty yards of the target to take advantage of an expanded pattern. At fifteen feet, one must have the gun pointed accurately if he intends to hit his target.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun
Also, if you have access, you should be able to find this paper on JSTOR:
Look at the part of it that talks about the spread rate.
I'm by no means a fan of Dick Cheney, but this conspiracy theory is pretty stupid. It's starting to remind me of those who claim that Vince Foster was murdered. Rather than destroy the left's credibility by engaging in blatant character assassination and chasing nonsense conspiracy theories, how about we focus on finding out the truth about all the things that Cheney actually has done wrong?
