Word: misleading
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...TIMING COULD NOT HAVE BEEN WORSE FOR THE Bush campaign. The Senate Intelligence Committee is burrowing into the possibility that the CIA and the Justice Department collaborated to mislead prosecutors looking into the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's illicit loans to Iraq. Blaming an "honest mistake," CIA officials have conceded responsibility for a Sept. 17 letter that failed to advise prosecutors and a federal judge that the agency possessed a cache of classified cables relating to the case. Late last week, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post, CIA officials testified in closed hearings that a senior...
...this logical blind alley. All lies, regardless of their relationship to the truth, have one thing in common. "We must single out," writes Sissela Bok in Lying, "from the countless ways in which we blunder misinformed through life, that which is done with the intention to mislead." Lies may confuse everyone who hears them, as they are meant to, but liars know exactly what they are doing while they are doing it. In Telling Lies, Paul Ekman, a professor of psychology at the University of California medical school in San Francisco, provides a slightly more elaborate definition: "One person intends...
...award may end up being more a symbol of public anger about the S&L debacle than a collectible judgment. The jury found that developer Conley Wolfswinkel, the Saudi European Investment Corp. and Continental Southern conspired with Keating and officers in American Continental and its Lincoln Savings subsidiary to mislead government ( regulators. Keating, 68, is in prison in California on state criminal charges stemming from the same transactions...
Individual classes had numbers, too. My first four college courses were 1802, 3.091, 8.01 and 9.00. Though stereotypes generally mislead, don't disbelieve all the nasty stuff you hear about...
...photo was sent to the Carr family by retired Air Force pilot Jack Bailey, whose Operation Rescue group has raised more than $3 million from MIA families over the past decade. Bailey claims he was duped by an unidentified hoaxer and did not knowingly mislead anyone. Nevertheless, the Justice Department is investigating Bailey's enterprise to determine whether he is responsible for other fake MIA documents and photos...