“When [Vice President Dick] Cheney returned to Meet the Press in early December [9, 2001] he raised the possibility that Iraq had been involved in the 9/11 attacks by citing a report–later to be discounted–that a high-ranking Iraqi intelligence official had met with Mohamed Atta, the leader of the 9/11 hijackers, in April 2001.”
– Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, Page 136