c) "We've [learned] that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and deadly gases." (Bush's televised October speech)
Comment: The L.A. Times reported a few days after that speech that CIA director
"Tenet's letter was more equivocal, saying only that there has been 'reporting' that such training has taken place. Unlike other passages of the letter, he did not describe the reporting as 'solid' or'credible.'"
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/la-na-cia11oct11.story
2) Withholding the key fact that destroys the moral underpinning of an argument (and, in Powell's case, reveals him to be a blood-drenched hypocrite):
"Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant, who [has already used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people.]" (Bush's October speech)
Comment: The L.A. Times reported a few days after that speech that CIA director
"Tenet's letter was more equivocal, saying only that there has been 'reporting' that such training has taken place. Unlike other passages of the letter, he did not describe the reporting as 'solid' or'credible.'"
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/la-na-cia11oct11.story
2) Withholding the key fact that destroys the moral underpinning of an argument (and, in Powell's case, reveals him to be a blood-drenched hypocrite):
"Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant, who [has already used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people.]" (Bush's October speech)