I remember this.
I can't embed the clip but I can put in the link.
Back in 1998 John Miller, a former crime reporter for NBC news, later a 20/20 correspondent and now I believe an FBI official, interviewed Osama Bin Laden for ABC news. At that time, Bin Laden threatened a series of attacks. The interview (which was on ABC but I can not find on the web in it's entirety) shows Bin Laden giving a series of threats against civilians in the US.
At that time, Bin Laden was in Afghanistan. This was 4 months before Clinton bombed Bin Laden in the Sudan.
Ok, so this is a guy Clinton bombed in the Sudan in retaliation for the bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tansania.
Just before those embassy bombings (4 months before to be precise) John Miller interviewed bin Laden on video tape. Multiple US casualties and civilian casualties were threatened by Bin Laden in his planned Al Qaeda war against the US. How can Cheney claim "little was known" about this organization?
Here is the link to Charlie Rose interviewing John Miller in 2002 about his book on the subject.
The charlie rose interview
The most damning bits for Cheney start at about 7 minutes. There are a few brief clips from the 20/20 interview but as I said, I can't seem to find the whole interview on the web.
So, an ABC reporter who had covered the first WTC bombing (for NBC) clearly knew a great deal about the Al Qaeda threat and about their workings - some of which was taped directly from the mouth of Bin Laden but Cheney didn't? Miller says in the Charlie Rose interview, that Newsweek's reporting on the subject in the years leading up to 9/11 was very thorough and well supported and there was no question as to Bin Laden's intent.
I mention this now, only because in Dick Cheney's most recent interview with Hannity, he argued that before 9/11 very little was known about Al Qaeda. This is a hard to swallow when there is tape from a 20/20 news episode to the contrary.
I find it strange that I can't find the original story in its entirety on the web. Maybe someone here, more clever than I, will unearth it - or maybe I can just become a little suspicious and paranoid.
There is tape of john Miller talking about the interview on the Daily Show.this is the link to the interview about the interview on the Daily Show.
UPDATED: As per Pale Cold, here is a link to the transcript of that video taped interview.
Thanks Pale Cold.
this is the interview Pale Cold found and linked to below
2nd Update: thank you to Brainwave for straightening out my time line.