Anything goes:

When you declare an extremely low standard for suspicious activity ("contacts") and reserve for yourself the exclusive right to interpret the evidence, that's a formula for Total Control. We see that when Condoleeza Rice tells the public how they should interpret the 9/11 Commission report. We read: (emphasis added)

In publishing a report that cited no evidence of a collaborative relationship between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, the Sept. 11 commission actually meant to say that Iraq had no control over the network, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Friday.

As the White House strove to curb potential damage to President Bush's credibility on Iraq, his closest aide on international security denied any inconsistency between the bipartisan panel's findings and Bush's insistence that a Saddam-Qaeda relationship existed.

"What I believe the 9-11 commission was opining on was operational control, an operational relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq which we never alleged," Rice said in an interview with National Public Radio.

It takes your breath away, doesn't it?

posted by Quiddity at 6/19/2004 04:36:00 AM