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Cheney takes blame for shooting  view story
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Michael Kranish and Bryan Bender - - Boston Globe
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Ending four days of silence, Vice President Dick Cheney gave a TV interview yesterday in which he took responsibility for accidentally shooting a fellow hunter last weekend, saying: ''You can't blame anybody else. I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend."
But Cheney also used the interview on Fox News to defend his decision to let the co-owner of the Texas ranch where the accident happened break the news to a local newspaper, which resulted in the White House not confirming the matter for 20 hours. That delay -- and the absence of a public apology by Cheney -- had created a firestorm for days that the vice president finally sought to quell by giving the 27-minute interview.
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