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Dick Durbin: “I might ask the Senator from West Virginia the following: So when Mr. Tim Russert of ``Meet The Press'' asked Vice…”

On the recordSeptember 14, 2006
I might ask the Senator from West Virginia the following: So when Mr. Tim Russert of ``Meet The Press'' asked Vice President Dick Cheney, on September 10, this last Sunday, ``And the meeting with Atta did not occur?'' and the Vice President replied, ``We don't know,'' does that contradict the published, unclassified report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that, in fact, we do know the meeting did not occur?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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