VP Cheney Doesn't Remember Sending Gonzales to See Ashcroft

Obviously changing his heart pacer did something to Dick Cheney's memory. Gonzales refused to answer the question as to who sent him to shake down a very sick Ashcroft at the hospital. You think someone is lying here? Here are his words on Larry King last night. You judge:

KING: In that regard, "The New York Times," which is -- as you said, it's not your favorite paper, reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the president's intelligence gathering program.

Was it you?

CHENEY: I don't recall the -- first of all, I haven't seen the story. I don't recall that I gave instructions to that effect.

KING: That would be something you would recall.

CHENEY: I would think so. But, certainly, I was involved because I was a big advocate of the Terrorist Surveillance Program and had been responsible and been working with General Hayden and George Tenet to get it to the president for approval.

By the time this occurred, it had already been approved about 12 times by the Department of Justice. There was nothing sort of new about.

KING: But you didn't send them to get Ash...

CHENEY: I don't recall that I was the one who sent them to the hospital.