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Cheney accused of inflating iraq 911 connection Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/9112173.htm?1c http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/9112173.htm?1c Posted on Fri, Jul. 09, 2004 CIA doubts Iraq link to Sept. 11 Cheney accused of inflating connection By JONATHAN S. LANDAY Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON — Departing CIA Director George Tenet has told Congress that the CIA is “increasingly skeptical” that Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in 2001. Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday of exaggerating the links between deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaida terrorist network. To bolster his charges, Levin released a new unclassified CIA finding that cast serious doubt on Cheney's repeated suggestions that Atta may have met with Iraqi intelligence officer Ahmed al Ani — who is now in U.S. custody — in April, five months before the attacks. “Although we cannot rule it out, we are increasingly skeptical that (the April 2001) meeting took place,” said the CIA's most definitive statement on the issue to date. “In the absence of any credible information that the April 2001 meeting occurred, we assess that Atta would have been unlikely to undertake the substantial risk of contacting any Iraqi official as late as April 2001, with the plot already well along toward execution.” The intelligence committee's report on flawed U.S. intelligence on Iraq is to be released today. Kevin Kellems, a spokesman for Cheney, said the vice president's assertions reflected the judgment of the intelligence community. A senior Republican aide disputed Levin's contention that the document ignored the administration's assertion that Hussein was allied with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. “It's all about politics,” he said.

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