We'll find evidence later...

Here is an interesting January 2004 falsehood from Vice President Dick Cheney that has for some reason escaped the wide attention it most certainly deserves:

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

Cheney's hopeful prediction was made during an interview with Rocky Mountain News. The original page has since expired but the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine preserves several copies.

He was of course referring to the process of document exploitation, this most recent effort I have posted about once before.

Now reading the recently released Senate Intelligence Committee report, Postwar Findings about Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How they Compare with Prewar Assessments, I find on pages 62-63:

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which is leading the exploitation effort of documents (DOCEX) uncovered in Iraq, told Committee staff that 120 million plus pages of documents that were recovered in Iraq have received an initial review for intelligence information.

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DIA officials explicitly stated that they did not believe that the initial review process missed any documents of major significance regarding Iraq's links to terrorism. During an interview with Committee staff, the lead DIA analyst who follows the issue of possible connections between the Iraqi government and al-Qa'ida noted that the DIA "continues to maintain that there was no partnership between the two organizations."

Billmon.org has a great deal more. Cheney responds.