Following up on reports similar to The Nation's:
According to the report, which appeared briefly Tuesday on MSNBC, Armstrong peddled the line that she did not believe that alcohol played a part in the shooting accident. But, she admitted, "There may be a beer or two in there, but remember not everyone in the party was shooting."
We find a lot more speculation both here and elsewhere (Lawrence O'Donnell, Alan Dershowitz, and Judd Legum to name 3).
Was alcohol involved in the shooting? Cheney didn't speak to local law enforcement until well after any alcohol would have left his system. So how, now, can we tell whether Cheney was impaired at the time of the shooting? If Whittington is named ambassador to Cyprus, though, that'll be one hell of a clue.