Cheney on MTP: I haven’t had a chance to read it (new intelligence report)

[ProSense]

September 10, 2006 -- 01:16 PM EDT)

Crooks and Liars has the video up of Cheney being Cheney this morning on Meet the Press:

VICE PRES. CHENEY: So you’ve got Iraq and 9/11, no evidence that there’s a connection. You’ve got Iraq and al-Qaeda, testimony from the director of CIA that there was indeed a relationship, Zarqawi in Baghdad, etc. Then the third...

MR. RUSSERT: The committee said that there was no relationship. In fact...

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, I haven’t seen the report; I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but the fact is...

The "report" he hasn't bothered to read is the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report released Friday, which revealed publicly for the first time the existence of an October 2005 CIA assessment which concluded that Saddam Hussein's government "did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates."

Go read the transcript. Historians will be puzzling over this artifact for the rest of our lives and beyond.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009712.php

[Ghost Dog]

1. but the fact is...

testimony from the director of CIA that there was indeed a relationship, Zarqawi in Baghdad, etc. Then the third...

So, what happened to the once world-famous US judicial system?

[John Gauger]

9. I doubt it was sworn testimony.

Since Iran-Contra federal officials never testify under oath.

[rodeodance]

2. i figure Cheney knowds EXactly what is in that Report---before many

others!

[Gman]

3. He probably hasn't read it

and doesn't care to. The only version worth anything in his opinion is his propaganda. He really cares not about anything else.

[Eurobabe]

4. I really just fucking hate this asswipe

Probably the most of all. I know someone who has met him, and he said that Crashcart was the most arrogant "my shit doesn't stink" prick ever.

Look at this photo from Yahoo...I hope he is rotting flesh from the inside out.

[rodeodance]

5. asked i he leaked confidential information:-about Plame: below

MR. RUSSERT: There was a story in the National Journal that Cheney authorized Libby to leak confidential information. Can you confirm or deny that?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: I have the authority as vice president under executive order issued by the president to classify and declassify information. And everything I’ve done is consistent with those authorities.

MR. RUSSERT: Could you declassify Valerie Plame’s status as an operative?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: I’ve said all I’m going to say on the subject, Tim.

MR. RUSSERT: Do you think the president should pardon Scooter Libby?

[DainBramaged]

6. LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE

[Straight Shooter]

7. "I never met John Edwards before our televised debate, either."

"I never said to Senator Leahy, Go fuck yourself."

"I thought Whittington was a quail."

:eyes:

[leftchick]

8. and condi liar doesn't remember ever seeing it.

:eyes:

[razors edge]

10. shouldn't his job as

president of the senate require him to place reading such reports into a higher priority than spin control on sunday talk shows? haven't had time my ass!