Nor would we have a letter from two Democrats to the N.S.A. director, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, saying that a government fact sheet about surveillance abroad "contains an inaccurate statement" (and where does that assertion leave Alexander's claims of the effectiveness and necessity of Prism?).
Now that I've ruined your day by putting the thought of that horrifying, hypothetical spelunking excursion in your head, let me hit you with a totally unsurprising and predictable bit of information: Fox is making headlines this week for a wildly inaccurate assertion made on its air.
"That is an inaccurate statement," he said.
But the jokes are soon flowing, as Watson subverts the convention that ascribes bravery to "balls", or rebuts a fellow diner's inaccurate assertion that the Little Chef's prices are akin to a mugging.
It commented: "This inaccurate assertion had given further weight to the claims, by suggesting that the newspaper had sought to stand up its story".
When a supporter at the preview complimented Mr. Macal on choosing Strauss and Wagner (the subject of the festival two years ago) regardless of their "Nazi sympathies," Mr. Macal diplomatically sidestepped the inaccurate assertion and responded: "Music is outside politics.
Transline has written to Wright saying it can see "absolutely no basis for the committee to state that we misled the committee in responding to the committee's inaccurate assertion that the company's GLA licence had been revoked".
He followed up this completely historically inaccurate assertion by saying that the failures in Iraq had all been down to postwar planning and that future "interventions in other countries must be more subtle, better planned, and if possible undertaken with the agreement of multilateral institutions".
"Embryos Created for Stem Cell Research" (July 11) quotes--and fails to challenge--Christopher Reeve's blatantly inaccurate assertion that if human embryos are not "used" for research, they will be indefinitely frozen or thrown away.
David Quinn makes the risible suggestion that the end of British rule in Ireland is comparable to Brexit, and then goes on to make a number of inaccurate assertions ("We took back control; let Britain have its turn", Comment, last week).
