We covered this previously in our extensive timeline of administration statements on Libya.
That left the White House struggling to explain his remarks, which contradicted his own past statements as well as administration statements on how the war has been handled.
Notably missing from initial Trump administration statements on the secretary of state was anything from Tillerson himself.
The report does not break significant new ground on the issue of administration statements about the episode, or on the infamous "talking points" drawn up after the attack for a television appearance by Susan E. Rice, now the national security adviser.
He cited administration statements that Iraq was "on the verge" of getting nuclear weapons, when in fact it was not close.
Thus, when Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks made anti-Bush administration statements during a concert early on in the Iraq War, they were seen by country music fans as unpatriotic or traitors, told to "shut up and sing," and even received death threats.
The current school administration's statement on the matter, meanwhile, said essentially that it was not in a position to comment on events of so long ago.
This administration's statement on discrimination against white applicants is yet another illustration of the myth of affirmative action: that white applicants are rejected and their spots are given to less qualified women and people of color.
Palmieri: And then Podesta's emails was just another distraction to, you know, to further obfuscate what was in the very damning information that was in the administration's statement on Russia.
"Plans need more certainty," Kristine Grow, spokeswoman for America's Health Insurance Plans, said this week, following administration statements that left its position on the lawsuit ambiguous.
The world, and the United States, cannot afford to let Mr. Bush go to Africa without a real plan to put cash behind the administration's statements on AIDS.
