WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is inviting Vice President Dick Cheney to provide any evidence he has showing links between Al Qaeda and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, panel member Richard Ben-Veniste said Saturday.

The commission said last week it found no evidence of collaboration between Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda, but the White House has kept saying there were significant links.

Cheney told the CNBC network there probably were things about Iraq's ties to terrorists that the commission did not learn during its 14-month investigation.

After hearing that, panel members said they would like to see intelligence reports to which Cheney referred.

"We would certainly welcome any information bearing on the issue," Ben-Veniste said Saturday.

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Commentary:
Talk about unmitigated gull. Imagine, the 9/11 Commission is asking Cheney for proof. How dare they? Don't they know that in the world of republican politics beliefs are more important than facts or evidence?. But what's really going on here? Cheney and his puppet Bush have learned that they can repeat a lie endlessly and the media won't call them on it. Cheney knows he's lying, but he figures his supporters listen to Fox Opinion and Rush and will never hear anything remotely close to the truth or will soon forget it once they hear this lie repeated ad nauseam.

The media will let Cheney lie, just like they let Bush lie about WMD and the $5 trillion in surpluses Bush said we had to give away. Even though everyone in the country knows Bush and Cheney lie to us daily the media is still obsessing over Bill Clinton not telling us the truth about a blow job. One is important, the other is not. The media remains deeply disturbed.

Bush, like many other "deeply religious men" is a pathological liar.