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Isikoff also reported, in the same August story, that Steele then recanted, and told him (Version #2) that Willey had only "told her about the incident weeks after it happened, saying only that the president had made a pass at her."
Although there have been suggestions of contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda regarding chemical weapons and explosives training, the most detailed information alleging such ties came from an al Qaeda operative who recanted much of his original information.
(Right-wing investigative journalist David Brock argues that many of Mayer and Abramson's sources for these allegations have recanted/claim they were misquoted.)
"Mayor McCheese recanted his support for NAFTA."
I speak feelingly, for I was caught once in this particular trap, as shown by the article on hawser in my `Etymological Dictionary,' for which I was promptly rebuked by Mr. Wedgwood in 1882 (twenty-seven years ago); and that is why I so fully recanted my heresy in the `Supplement';.