Oh, the tangled webs we weave
 When we practice to deceive. --
         ( Sir Walter Scott)

Of course, even if the Pentagon/CIA crew told the truth for a change, they
know they wouldn't be forgiven for what they've done. There's no benefit
to them for confessing error, and nobody has the slightest notion of how
to prevent them from commiting future errors.

Any ideas out there - other than reducing their weekly allowance?

MichaelP
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London Times   September 3 1998

   America insists factory was gas producer

   FROM IAN BRODIE
   IN WASHINGTON

   THE Pentagon and CIA have launched a spirited response to critics who
   accuse the United States of bombing a harmless pharmaceutical factory
   in Sudan.

   At briefings here, officials insisted that the factory was involved in
   a secret chemical weapons programme. President Clinton ordered the
   raid in retaliation for vehicle bombs that destroyed US embassies in
   Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. Those attacks were linked to Osama bin
   Laden whose camps in Afghanistan were also bombed.

   William Cohen, the Secretary of Defence, and George Tenet, the CIA
   director, told 42 senators at a secret briefing that America had
   strong evidence to justify the Sudan attack. They asserted that tests
   of a soil sample obtained from outside the factory by a CIA spy showed
   a high concentration of Empta, a chemical used in the manufacture of
   VX nerve gas.

   But James Woolsey, Mr Clinton's former CIA director, was not
   convinced. He said: "This should not be the kind of decision made only
   with three or four people around you of Cabinet-level who don't know
   an Empta sample from their left foot."

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