If we HAD done it...
It would have been in the Washington Post a few days later. We can't keep a secret in this country! Not even Bush would have been stupid enough to try that.
And, although Cheney is a crook of the first order, I don't think even HE would have been in cahoots with bin Laden. Bin Laden would have cheerfully put a missile up Cheney's hindquarters and Cheney knows it and I'm quite sure knew it then.