Hiding the Truth Could be costly

I personally dont feel that what Dick Cheny accidentally did should be a matter of discussion. But this is being discussed so much that I am force to write something about it. I am sure he will not be punished or prosecuted for what happened, and he should not. I am sure things would have been different if the incident was revealed as and when happened. Now media is not behind what happened but why American people were not being told about it on time. Is white house trying to hide/cover something. Here is what I heard from NPR Radio.

"I know to a lot of people watching it, we look like a bunch of yapping dogs," says Ron Hutcheson, the White House correspondent for the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain. "But there’s a real fundamental issue about our government -- one of the things that sets us apart from places like China and Russia -- and that is our system is based on openness and accountability."

And Hutcheson says there's not a lot of that when it comes to Dick Cheney -- who quietly has been at the center of many major stories involving this administration.
"We take what we can get," Hutcheson says. "The irony here is we've probably got the most powerful vice president in American history who's probably also the most secretive vice president in American history. So it's really difficult to cover him."

No matter what happened, what was the intention behind hiding the truth but now its hurting the Cheny, more than it could have hurt, if the issue was conveyed to American people in the beginning. Now people have started questioning the credibility of Cheny and Bush administration towards the American citizen.