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To: Bill who wrote (104194)	5/16/2005 1:07:19 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

hmmm.... do you think it's possible there was a machiavellian intent? assuming newsweek would run with the unsubstantiated story, by not 'denying' is simply cya until the facts of the story are known....meaning they are reserving judgement until an investigation... newsweek otoh....considers a non-denial as consent? deliberate machiavellian attempt to make fools of the newsweek reporters or 'stupid honest' (they didn't know for sure and not willing to confirm or deny) i think most likely the latter

To: Bill who wrote (104194)	5/16/2005 1:15:53 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm not ready to "stipulate" it either. But I assume we agree that if what Marc Whitaker says -- that the DOD didn't challenge that, but one of them challenged another point -- is true, the story isn't about a "knowing" "lie," as Oral Roberts asserted it was, and includes DOD incompetence -- or their belief that the story was true. Claims that things are true that aren't, and intelligence-management, can, it is true, lead to many deaths, sometimes hundreds of thousands of them. Torture kills people, too, and doesn't do a whole lot to win friends and influence people or to assure better treatment of any of our troops taken prisoner. Yes, stupidity kills.