Bush & Iraq: Mizaru kikazaru iwazaru (see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing)

"I'm not surprised if people in the administration were put on the defensive. We weren't trying to make them look bad, we're just trying to give them information. Of course, we're telling them something they don't want to hear." --- CIA spokesman's response to the Bush Administration's scathing attack of the former following a National Intelligence Council (NIC) assessment, completed in July, that gave a dramatically different outlook than the administration's and represented a consensus at the CIA and the State and Defense departments.