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"Not that he wouldn't like to talk. But none of us are allowed to." Those were the words of Deborah Dymond, wife of Westchester County Police Officer Ernest Dymond, when asked by the National Enquier in November about the injuries her husband sustained on Oct 14 after he was hit by a van carrying New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. Officer Dymond was mannning a security checkpoint at Westchester County Airport when Clinton's driver, rushing to get her to a Syracuse fund-raiser, sped by at 35 mph and failed to stop for another 100 yards. Three days later the injured cop ...

The press is devoting blanket coverage to Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident on Saturday, where he injured a friend while the two were quail shooting in Texas. But the media didn't think it was such a big deal five years ago, when Sen. Hillary Clinton injured a police officer who was manning a security post at the Westchester County Airport while she was rushing to a fundraiser. On Oct. 14, 2001, Clinton's Ford conversion van blew past a security checkpoint manned by Officer Ernest Dymond, who said later that he immediately feared a repeat of the Sept. 11 attacks....