I know he has considerable sway. I saw it first hand. His predecessors were visiting the leaders, repeating the talking points. He had the clout to call up the NSC national security council.
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Yes, it absolutely suggests that. It sounds to me... as if they had a negotiation between the agency and the NSC over what they were going to say, that the CIA objected strenuously to the idea of asserting it on the basis of U.S. intelligence, and when the NSC came back and said, let's blame it on them, let's attribute it to the British, the CIA, well, on that basis, on part of our negotiation, we withdraw our formal objection. And Condi Rice is saying, he didn't object, therefore, we didn't take it out.
We've made available NSC staff ... given access to relevant documents, even though the committee does not have jurisdiction over the White House,