On Saturday Night Live, Phil Hartman portrayed the 40th US president as a doddering geriatric, prone to falling asleep during briefings, an impression based on the political chatter of the day.
The information in this piece is based on briefings produced for the Local Government Information Unit.
"It appears to me the answer is yes," Dr. Ride said, based on briefings she had received on the plans.
The level of concern in the Clinton camp is perhaps best conveyed by two reports that appeared in the Times in the past few days, which were based on briefings from Clinton staffers and supporters.
Based on briefings from intelligence officials, he said ISI had also been interested in Abbottabad in the months before the raid, and had even begun watching the man who would turn out to be al-Kuwaiti.
He insisted that reports that intelligence officials had been unhappy with the government's claim that Iraq could launch WMD attacks within 45 minutes were based on briefings by "a senior, credible and reliable source".
But from all I have been able to ascertain from high-level briefings, the logical conclusion based on all of the evidence, all of the broken promises, all the obfuscation and now this nexus between Hussein and other terrorist groups and individuals is that we simply can't afford the risk to humanity.
It follows a number of newspaper reports based on briefings from "senior republican sources" that the IRA had murdered Mr Lynskey.
But Israeli journalists, based on background briefings from officials here, reported that they had been told of two variations on a plan for Jerusalem.
For three days, officials at news conferences and background briefings said their concerns were based on new information, then old information, then back to new information.
