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   WASHINGTON – Skeptics have begun to openly doubt the explanation   
   Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has given about the severe injuries to   
   his face, and the questions have become especially pointed as   
   possible new information has come to light.   
      
   Some have said his concussion, swollen-shut eye, facial cuts and   
   broken ribs look less like the result of the exercise accident   
   Reid has claimed caused the injuries and more like the result of   
   a beating.   
      
   And now, numerous publications are picking up on a report that   
   points the finger of blame at Reid’s brother, Larry.   
      
   John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog reported an account he   
   said was given to him Friday by a Las Vegas-area businessman   
   that is now getting much attention.   
      
   Hinderaker said a man who called himself Easton Elliott told him   
   he attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on New Year’s Eve in   
   Henderson, Nevada, when a man named Larry entered.   
      
   “His appearance was striking: there was blood on his clothing,   
   beginning around his midsection. His left hand was swollen. He   
   appeared to be somewhat intoxicated and was visibly agitated,”   
   Elliot reportedly said.   
      
   Larry said he’d had a fight with a family member, didn’t   
   remember much because he had blacked out, and was now worried   
   the Secret Service would come after him, according to Elliott.   
      
   Weeks later, Elliott said he saw a newspaper story about the   
   arrest on Monday of 73-year-old Larry Reid, Harry’s brother, for   
   DUI and assaulting a highway patrolman, near Searchlight, Nevada.   
      
   Larry Reid was also charged with driving across a median,   
   resisting arrest, not wearing a seat belt and possession of a   
   gun while under the influence of alcohol.   
      
   Elliott said he immediately recognized the photo of Larry Reid   
   as the same Larry who attended the AA meeting on New Year’s Eve.   
      
   Harry Reid was hospitalized on New Year’s Day.   
      
   Even though participants in AA meetings pledge to keep their   
   identities anonymous, Elliott said he then consulted with   
   several others who attended the AA meeting and said they   
   recognized the man in the photo as the Larry at the meeting.   
      
   The senator’s office said Reid’s Capitol Police security detail   
   was with him at the time of the injuries, and they accompanied   
   him to a hospital in Henderson, Nevada, on New Year’s Day.   
      
   Breitbart News asked Capitol Police to verify Reid’s injury   
   claim by providing an incident report by that security detail,   
   but the news organization reported it had been stonewalled.   
      
   After numerous phone calls and emails, Lt. Kimberly Schneider,   
   public information officer for the Capitol Police, sent a   
   statement on Monday to Breitbart:   
      
   “The U.S. Capitol Police does not discuss security or law   
   enforcement sensitive information regarding the operations of   
   the U.S. Capitol Police, or the security of Members of Congress.”   
      
   The website has since asked “both the Inspector General of the   
   Capitol Police and the Capitol Board to provide the public with   
   the details surrounding Reid’s New Year’s Day injuries as well   
   as into the conduct of the Capitol Police in failing to properly   
   report those details.”   
      
   Breitbart has asked: If the possibility of assault on a member   
   of Congress, a federal crime, has not been ruled out, why is the   
   FBI, which has jurisdiction over such matters, not currently   
   investigating?   
      
   Reid has claimed an exercise band attached to a shower door   
   “broke and spun me around and I crashed into these cabinets and   
   injured my eye.”   
      
   http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/was-harry-reid-really-pummeled-by-a-   
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