Saturday, May 18, 2002

Democrats Raise Questions Over Remarks on Warnings
"It looks well crafted to use the language of `no specific threat' when we now realize there was a significant amount of information of a more generalized threat," Mr. Torricelli said in an interview. "There is almost never a specific threat. Blueprints of terrorist attacks are extremely rare."

Joe Lockhart, the former Clinton White House press secretary, said: "It's clear once they sort of caught their breath, they took parsing to a brand new level. They were very precise, so that they could always go back and say we answered that question without lying, but trampled the spirit of our language. They left the impression that the August briefing didn't happen."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/18/politics/18THRE.html?todaysheadlines

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