Cheneyspeak

Brought to you by a clip of the Daily Show seen on tonight"s Larry King Live:

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."

CHENEY: No, I never said that.

BORGER: OK.

CHENEY: I never said that.

BORGER: I think that is...

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.

-- CNBC interview, June 17, 2004

But then,

Well, what we now have that"s developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that"s been pretty well confirmed, that [Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack.

-- Vice President Cheney, Meet the Press, CBS, December 9, 2001

And we"re supposed to trust these people?