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Tonight: "The senator has got his facts wrong. I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror."
On Dec. 9, 2001, Cheney said on "Meet The Press" that "it's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack."
U.S. records showed Atta living in Virginia Beach in April 2001, and they could find no indication he had left Virginia or traveled outside the United States.
March 24, 2002, Cheney again told NBC, "We discovered . . . the allegation that one of the lead hijackers, Mohamed Atta, had, in fact, met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague."
In May, senior FBI and CIA analysts, having scoured thousands of travel records, concluded "there was no evidence Atta
left or returned to the U.S.," according to officials at the time.
But on Sept. 8, 2002, Cheney, again on "Meet the Press," said that Atta "did apparently travel to Prague. . . . We have reporting that places him in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence officer a few months before the attacks on the World Trade Center."
"What does the CIA say about that?" asked host Tim Russert. "Is it credible?"
"It's credible," Cheney replied. "But, you know, I think the way to put it would be it's unconfirmed at this point."
September 2003: Meet the Press: "With respect to 9/11, of course, we've had the story . . . the Czechs alleged that Mohamed
Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we've
never been able to develop anymore of that yet, either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it."
Gee DICK....guess you LIED tonight huh?
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