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To: DizzyG who wrote (710600)	11/2/2005 3:34:51 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

wilson said this. "Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat." (1) Based on numerous analysis of wilson's comments and writings on his actions concerning WMD I have little choice but to conclude that wilson lied and twisted facts to exaggerate and hide truth over and over. (1) commondreams.org

To: DizzyG who wrote (710600)	11/2/2005 4:17:56 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Why would he not lie in one, which he wrote himself, and then lie in another. "Schmidt notes that the panel found that, "Wilson provided misleading information to the Washington Post last June. He said then that he concluded the Niger intelligence was based on a document that had clearly been forged because 'the dates were wrong and the names were wrong.'" In this quote he doesn't say that he saw the papers during his trip. The reporter took it upon themselves to interpret what Wilson said. That is the misleading part. I have also read elsewhere that the reporter took his words to mean one things when Wilson was saying something else. If you look at the two quotes they are very similar. The one directly from Wilson is very clear, while the one coming from the third party is less clear. I wouldn't be the first time a reporter made an assumption and quoted something out of context. To say that Wilson lied based on this is flimsy at best. jb