] Last night Mr. Cheney, who was the administration's most
] forceful advocate of the Qaeda-Hussein links, was more
] pointed, repeating in detail his case for those ties and
] saying that The New York Times's coverage yesterday of
] the commission's findings "was outrageous."
]
] "They do a lot of outrageous things," Mr. Cheney,
] appearing on "Capital Report" on CNBC, said of the
] Times, referring specifically to a four-column front page
] headline that read "Panel Finds No Qaeda-Iraq Tie." Mr.
] Cheney added: "The press wants to run out and say there's
] a fundamental split here now between what the president
] said and what the commission said."
]
] He said that newspapers, including the Times, had
] confused the question of whether there was evidence of
] Iraqi participation in Sept. 11 with the issue of whether
] a relationship existed between Al Qaeda and Mr. Hussein's
] regime.