It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero…

I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.

: there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things:

The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn't called out. Today …

There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives'... …

'I have no problems with comment that is meant to criticize or scrutinize. I respond only because there has been exaggeration, misrepresentation, and descripti…