The NYTimes spin is immense for the close reader:
In his June 17 interview, on CNBC, Mr. Cheney described himself as a skeptic about the idea of a meeting. But he did not mention the idea that intelligence officials believed such a meeting would have been unlikely.
This is spun as if it were some fault of Cheney to mention something else in an interview -and Cheney's comments might be reflective of that intelligence.
On the bright side his spokesman is ready with comments, ie Tenet's own statements back in February, which is a rare occurence for his PR team - to be prepared. However the spin is ongoing, and explanations to difficult I think. The Prague meeting is a minor event or non-event in the total view, but it has been successfully nursed into a "Cheney Lied" truism.
BTW, I don't buy for a minute Tenet's new spin without any reason given why his view is changing as late as 2004. But the Admin will probably bury it hoping it goes away. They have that little insertion by the 9/11 Commission to contend with.
Another result of a relentless liberal socialist communist protecting press bias.
As you say it's always there if you read carefully. This media simply assemble another lie to make further use of one already fabricated.
Atta's unimportant meeting probably took place, it's just lucky for the Rats nobody got pictures of them in bed together, no matter. What does matter is that Iraq and Saddam were major supporters of anti-American terrorists of several persuasions, and Saddam was a terrorist himself head of state or not. Tenent can stand on his head and juggle eggs and it won't change that.