Declassified Document Contradicts Cheney’s Claim of Iraqi Connection to 9/11

[Hissyspit]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/20/declassified-document-contradicts-cheneys-claim-of-iraqi-connection-to-911

Declassified document contradicts Cheney’s claim of Iraqi connection to 9/11

By Stephen C. Webster
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:35 EDT
 
A document declassified this week by the National Security Archive reveals that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) delivered a briefing to the Bush administration which directly contradicts former Vice President Dick Cheney’s claim that 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta visited an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague.

The document (PDF), dated Dec. 1, 2001 and delivered to the White House on the 8th, claims that Atta “did not travel to the Czech Republic on 31 May 2000,” and adds that “the individual who attempted to enter the Czech Republic on 31 May 2000… was not the Atta who attacked the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.”

Despite this briefing, just days later on Dec. 9, 2001, Cheney told the late Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press, that the meeting in Prague had been “pretty well confirmed.”

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Even after the CIA had again refuted the link between Iraq and the 9/11 hijacker, Cheney still repeated it during a Sept. 2003 appearance on Meet the Press. Shortly after Russert confronted him with polling that showed as much as 69 percent of Americans believed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, Cheney responded:

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The problem with that now appears to be that the vice president did know the intelligence was bogus, but continued repeating it to support his argument for war. No link was ever established between the Iraqi regime and the attacks of Sept. 11.

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[sakabatou]

1. We knew about this for a damn while

Especially after "Fahrenheit 9-11."

[HereSince1628]

2. I suppose this is like visiting a grave...you read the death took place years ago

but by golly you can now see it for yourself.

[StateApparatus]

3. This is technique...

The federal government waits until a scandal has been beaten to death in the media, and talked to death among the people. Once the issue is long dead, the truth is slowly leaked out one piece at a time. Once we finally have a clear picture of what actually happened, nobody cares... or those that do care think it's all part of the previous debate.

The time will come when it could come to light that the whole thing was run by the CIA at the request of Bush and Cheney, and the whole nation would utter a collective "meh..."

[deutsey]

8. Yeah, let's see how many news outlets even cover this n/t

[Old and In the Way]

4. Cheney, Bush, and Rumney are war criminals.

He flat out lied about the casus belli. He knew there were no Iraqi ties to 9/11, just like he knew there was no WMDs ready to rain down on poor US citizens. Cheney was engineering the hostile takeover of Iraqi National Oil in the Spring of 2001 and used 9/11 as a means to justify this illegal and immoral war on Iraq. They killed 100's of thousands of innocent Iraqi's (and 5000 American lives) and broke the country.

He, George, Condi, Dick, et al, should be pleading for their lives at The Hague facing charges of war crimes against humanity.

[bobthedrummer]

5. K&R The BUSH/CHENEY administration was installed, not elected-imo, that's called a coup. n/t

[bobthedrummer]

6. A rememberance kick, n/t

[KansDem]

7. KnR

They knew...and they're getting away with it!