Crooks and Liars has the video up of Cheney being Cheney this morning on Meet the Press:
VICE PRES. CHENEY: So youâve got Iraq and 9/11, no evidence that thereâs a connection. Youâve 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 havenât seen the report; I havenât 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.
