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Truth in Politics
Dick Cheney said it. Then he said he didn't say it. Then he said what he said. HE LIED. He lied when he said it, he lied when he said he didn't say, and he lied about what he said he did say.
Source: Daily Howler, 2004-06-21
Candidate: Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney made a bald misstatement (read that BIG FAT LIE) to Gloria Borger last Thursday when he appeared on CNBC Capitol Report. Clearly, Borger knew that Cheney’s statement was wrong. But did Borger challenge what Cheney said? Please! Her reply to the veep was: “OK!”
Cheney appeared on Borger’s show to offer the Administration’s view about ties between Iraq and al Qaeda. At one point, Borger quoted (or tried to quote) something Cheney once said about Mohammad Atta:
BORGER: Well, let’s get to Mohamed Atta for a minute because you mentioned him as well. You have said in the past that it was, quote, “pretty well confirmed”
From the transcript, it isn’t clear if Borger got to finish her statement. But she was clearly referring to something Cheney said on the December 9, 2001 Meet the Press. Did Atta, one of the 9/11 pilots, meet with Iraqi agents in Prague before 9/11? Here’s what Cheney told Tim Russert:
Here comes the first iie:
CHENEY (12/9/01): What we now have that’s developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that-it's been PRETTY WELL CONFIMED that HE DID GO TO PRAGUE and HE DID MEET WITH A SENIOR OFFICIAL OF THE IRAQUI INTELLIGENCE SERVICE IN CZECHOSLOVIAKIA LAST APRIL, several months before the attack. Now, what the purpose of that was, what transpired between them, we simply don't know at this point, but that's clearly an avenue that we want to pursue.
Clearly, that’s the statement to which Borger referred. But Cheney insisted he hadn’t said it. Here is the fuller exchange:
BORGER: Well, let’s get to Mohamed Atta for a minute because you mentioned him as well. You have said in the past that it was, quote, “pretty well confirmed”
Here comes lie number two:
CHENEY: No, I never said that.
BORGER: OK. (Okay? She knows perfectly well he said it!)
Here comes lie number three:
CHENEY: I never said that.
BORGER: I think that -.
He lies again for emphasis:
CHENEY: Absolutely not. What I said was the Czech intelligence service reported after 9/11 that Atta had been in Prague on April 9 of 2001, where he allegedly met with an Iraqi intelligence official. We have never been able to confirm that nor have we been able to knock it down, we just don't know.
Clearly, Cheney was wrong about this. (NO, CLEARLY CHENEY LIED)
This week, as we all remember the Presidential Lie "(I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky)" that put us all through $73 million manhung culminating in a XXX rated Starr Report, let us all remember that Ms. Lewinsky was a willing, even enthusiastic, participant and that NO ONE DIED AS A RESULT OF THE CLINTON LIE.
CAN WE START IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS NOW, PLEASE.
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From: mccoy@gorge.net
2007-09-16 00:00:00
can they impeach without 60% of the vote? al mccoy
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