TALK ABOUT BURYING THE LEAD!

Cheney has a tendancy to have anyone who confronts him detained and arrested, because he believes in democracy enough to start a war over it, but don't expect him to practice it at home. NYTimes reports:

The arrest of a man named Steven Howards in June 2006 after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney at a Colorado ski resort and denounced the war in Iraq might have seemed, at the time, no more than a blip on the vice president’s schedule.

But now the blip has become a blowup, with Secret Service agents — under oath in court depositions — accusing one another of unethical and perhaps even illegal conduct in the handling of Mr. Howards’s arrest and the official accounting of it.

The agent who made the arrest, Virgil D. Reichle Jr., said in a deposition that he was left hanging with an untenable arrest because two agents assigned to the vice president had at first agreed with a Denver agent that there had been assault on Mr. Cheney by Mr. Howards, then changed their stories to say that no assault had occurred.

Mr. McLaughlin said Mr. Reichle, who has since been transferred to Guam, asked him in a call several hours after the encounter to say that there had been an assault to bolster justification for the arrest.

The agent who stands up for right is suddenly transferred to Guam. Since so many Bushies had no qualifications for their job, they just seem to have watched a bunch of old movies and used that as training. Want to intimidate someone, send them to Guam.