Salon.com | News Wires: "Capitol Police dropped a charge of unlawful conduct against anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Wednesday and apologized for ejecting her and a congressman's wife from President Bush's State of the Union address for wearing T-shirts with war messages.

'The officers made a good faith, but mistaken effort to enforce an old unwritten interpretation of the prohibitions about demonstrating in the Capitol,' Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said in a statement late Wednesday.

'The policy and procedures were too vague,' he added. 'The failure to adequately prepare the officers is mine.'

The extraordinary statement came a day after police removed Sheehan and Beverly Young, wife of Rep. C.W. 'Bill' Young, R-Fla., from the visitors gallery Tuesday night. Sheehan was taken away in handcuffs before Bush's arrival at the Capitol and charged with a misdemeanor, while Young left the gallery and therefore was not arrested, Gainer said.

'Neither guest should have been confronted about the expressive T-shirts,' Gainer's statement said."

(Via Salon.)