Word: untruth
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...Untruth & Consequences Regardless of whether the CIA approved George W. Bush's State of the Union message before it was delivered [July 21], the fact remains that the President presented a piece of false evidence in support of the Administration's case for going to war with Iraq. The CIA had warned members of the President's staff that the intelligence was not good enough to make the flat statement that Saddam Hussein had "sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Even though Bush cited the British government in his statement, he conveyed a falsehood. It was Bush...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell has attempted to ride out the yellowcake crisis by defending Bush and at the same time clearing his own name by making clear that he never repeated that particular untruth. Combining those two objectives can be tough. "At the time of the president's State of the Union, a judgement was made that was an appropriate statement for the president to make," he told reporters in South Africa last week, referring to the Niger allegation. "When I made my presentation to the United Nations and we really went through every single thing we knew about...
...really a fib if the teller is unaware that he is uttering an untruth? That question appears to be the basis of the White House defense, having now admitted a falsehood in President Bush's claim, in his State of the Union address, that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa. But that defense is under mounting pressure from a variety of sources claiming that the White House could not have been unaware that the claim was false, because it had been checked out - and debunked - by U.S. intelligence a year before the President repeated...
...brochure, it says he graduated from Harvard University and next to it was a cap and gown,” Rich said. “So it wasn’t an typographical error. Obviously it was an untruth...
...years outside the priesthood to Thomas Farragher of the Boston Globe. When Farragher's story appeared, the reporter began receiving e-mails about Spagnolia's long-term relationship with Winston F. Reed of Boston. When Farragher put the question to Father Spagnolia last Thursday night, he was given another untruth: Yes, Father Spagnolia told him, he had had a five-year sexual relationship with Reed, but no other partners. At a frantic Friday noon press conference at St. Patrick's, Father Spagnolia admitted there had in fact been two sexual affairs. His lawyer, Eileen Donaghue, took pains to point...