The White House handling of the accidental shooting of Henry Whittington by Vice President Cheney gets a scathing editorial in the NYT today.

The paper ends its editorial as follows "The vice president appears to have behaved like a teenager who thinks that if he keeps quiet about the wreck, no one will notice that the family car is missing its right door. The administration's communications department has proved that its skills at actually communicating are so rusty it can't get a minor police-blotter story straight. And the White House, in trying to cover up the cover-up, has once again demonstrated that it would rather look inept than open. "