Re: OT Kerry was right



In article <pjbcm1ljqv0qn5nbs4os28crgkltd0cuer@xxxxxxx>,
Peter Skelton <skeltonp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Meet the Press May 16
>
> "When I made that presentation in February 2003, it was based on
> the best information that the Central Intelligence Agency made
> available to me. We studied it carefully; we looked at the
> sourcing in the case of the mobile trucks and trains. There was
> multiple sourcing for that. Unfortunately, that multiple sourcing
> over time has turned out to be not accurate. And so I'm deeply
> disappointed. But I'm also comfortable that at the time that I
> made the presentation, it reflected the collective judgment, the
> sound judgment of the intelligence community. But it turned out
> that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and in some cases,
> deliberately misleading. And for that, I am disappointed and I
> regret it."
>
> He's saying the intelligence community lied to him.

No, he's saying that some of the sources were inaccurate or misleading.
Which covers a helluva lot of ground, all the way from some analyst
being overly optimistic or pessimistic down to things like foreign
governments offering forged documents.

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