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The admission contradicts the CIA's previous assurances that U.S. soldiers couldn't have been exposed to nerve gas, and (after that assurance proved false) that the agency had been unaware of chemical weapons in the bunker.
This directly contradicts yesterday's WP dispatch, which appears to have relied exclusively on Pakistani authorities' accounts of the man's statements.
I confess that I harbor a belief that contradicts much that I have held dear over the years, that leads me to reject well-established economic theory and practice, that has earned me the understandable scorn of my Slate colleagues.
Not only is this breathtakingly wrongheaded, it contradicts the previous principle.
He is apparently unable to provide accurate factual information, and even contradicts himself.