We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

Perle later stated that the two men indeed crossed each other one morning as claimed by Tenet but only later in the same week and not on September 12. Tenet testified before a public hearing of the Sept. pilots including checklists verifying target information and coordinates.

S. presidents of opposing political parties.