Still Pulling Your Cheney

From CNBC's Capital Report, Thursday 6/17:

GLORIA BORGER [host]: But obviously first the news of the week is the 9-11 Commission report. And as you know, the report found, quote, "No credible evidence that al-Qaida collaborated with Iraq or Saddam Hussein. Do you disagree with its findings?

Vice Pres. CHENEY: I disagree with the way their findings have been portrayed. This has been enormous confusion over the Iraq-al-Qaida connection, Gloria. First of all, on the question of whether or not there was any kind of a relationship, there clearly was a relationship. It's been testified to. The evidence is overwhelming. It goes back to the early '90s. It involves a whole series of contacts, high-level contacts between Osama bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence officials.[...] There's a separate question. The separate question is: Was Iraq involved with al-Qaida in the attack on 9/11?

BORGER: Was Iraq involved?

Vice Pres. CHENEY: We don't know. You know, what the commission says is that they can't find any evidence of that. We had one report which is a famous report on the Czech intelligence service and we've never been able to confirm or to knock it down.

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I don't get it. When Cheney make exactly this "wink wink" referencelast year, Bush smacked him down. Anyway, less noticed is what Cheney went on to say:

Vice Pres. CHENEY: [The commission was] addressing was whether or not they were involved in 9/11. And there they found no evidence to support that proposition. They did not address the broader question of a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida in other areas, in other ways.

Here's what the report says, "There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda also occurred after Bin Ladin had returned to Afghanistan, but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship."

Comments

[Nell Lancaster]

And isn't this also pure garbage?:
We had one report which is a famous report on the Czech intelligence service and we've never been able to confirm or to knock it down.

in that the commission specifically did knock it down with evidence (ATM video, among other things) that Atta was in Maryland when the Prague meeting was supposed to have happened?

What allure...

[John Tabin]

Nell: The commission did not knock down the allegation of the Prague meeting with "ATM video, among other things." The only evidence that Atta was in the US during the time the Prague meeting is thought to have taken place are cell phone records, which are far from definitive; Atta's crew may have shared cell phones.