Looking for a MTP clip- Cheney says he doesn't know Wilson!

Anyone remember that?

Peace.

before the debate although past film shows them breakfasting? LOL!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3080244/

Transcript for Sept. 14
Sunday, September 14, 2003 GUEST: Dick Cheney, vice president Tim Russert, moderator


<snip> MR. RUSSERT: Now, Ambassador Joe Wilson, a year before that, was sent over by the CIA because you raised the question about uranium from Africa. He says he came back from Niger and said that, in fact, he could not find any documentation that, in fact, Niger had sent uranium to Iraq or engaged in that activity and reported it back to the proper channels. Were you briefed on his findings in February, March of 2002?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. I don’t know Joe Wilson. I’ve never met Joe Wilson. A question had arisen. I’d heard a report that the Iraqis had been trying to acquire uranium in Africa, Niger in particular. I get a daily brief on my own each day before I meet with the president to go through the intel. And I ask lots of question. One of the questions I asked at that particular time about this, I said, “What do we know about this?” They take the question. He came back within a day or two and said, “This is all we know. There’s a lot we don’t know,” end of statement. And Joe Wilson—I don’t who sent Joe Wilson. He never submitted a report that I ever saw when he came back.

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Or was it Rove, and then it came out that they attend the same church?

That clip must also be archived somewhere.

ON EDIT: Maybe I'm thinking about John Edwards. Sorry.

Perhaps that's why you ask?

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_10_23_digbysblog_archive.html#113020677547157832

This is big, IMO.

Peace.

two years ago and the lies are continuous. They are flowing from his lips like he is never going to have to answer for the ones he's lying about then to cover up for later.

It's really sickening.

(Cheney continues): I guess the intriguing thing, Tim, on the whole thing, this question of whether or not the Iraqis were trying to acquire uranium in Africa. In the British report, this week, the Committee of the British Parliament, which just spent 90 days investigating all of this, revalidated their British claim that Saddam was, in fact, trying to acquire uranium in Africa. What was in the State of the Union speech and what was in the original British White papers. So there may be difference of opinion there. I don’t know what the truth is on the ground with respect to that, but I guess—like I say, I don’t know Mr. Wilson. I probably shouldn’t judge him. I have no idea who hired him and it never came...

MR. RUSSERT: The CIA did.

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Who in the CIA, I don’t know.

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Wilson returned to Washington and made his report. It was circulated, he said, but “I heard nothing about what the Vice-President’s office thought about it.” (In response, Cathie Martin said, “The Vice-President doesn’t know Joe Wilson and did not know about his trip until he read about it in the press.” The first press accounts appeared fifteen months after Wilson’s trip.)

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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact

Wilson was the last Ambassador of Iraq and met with Saddam. There is no way the State Dept didn't cooperate with the Defense Dept. which Cheney headed. We still had people in Iraq before hostilities broke out.

http://www.cpsag.com/our_team/wilson.html

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During ''Desert Shield'' he was the acting Ambassador and was responsible for the negotiations that resulted in the release of several hundred American hostages. He was the last official American to meet with Saddam Hussein before the launching of ''Desert Storm.''
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