Forget the shooting: CIA leak is still Cheney’s albatross
By RON FOURNIER
It’s not Dick Cheney’s hunting mishap that worries Republicans. It’s his other scandal — the CIA leak case and the threat it poses to the embattled vice president.
Republican activists acknowledge that the accidental shooting of Cheney’s friend is the talk of mainstream America and has made the vice president the butt of jokes. But they do not expect political fallout from the shooting or the clumsy way in which it was disclosed.