He also said the administration had failed to brief the Congressional intelligence committees on the unfolding plot, as required by law.
Asked whether White House officials had failed to brief him before news of the new group came out, he said, "That's true".
The deal held, but his behaviour cost him his job as Tory leader in the Lords because he failed to brief William Hague on the plan.
But if so, someone in her department evidently failed to brief her on one of its own cases (still "not fit for purpose" eh?) I'll start with a minor point: the man, a Bolivian, was not an "illegal immigrant".
The administration has also failed to brief Congress on the surveillance as required by the National Security Act of 1947.
Gen. James H. Ledlie, who failed to brief the men on what was expected of them and was reported during the battle to be drunk well behind the lines, providing no leadership.
Some hare escapades tragically fail: in Brief Encounter (1945), Laura Celia Johnsonn) relinquishes Alec Trevor Howardd) for the sake of her amiable but dull husband and children.
But we think it's a poor show for a major transport company such as Eurostar to introduce changes like this and then apparently fail to brief staff properly, raising passengers' expectations (and, ahem, nearly three months after the new policy was introduced).
Further, if the justices agree with the Bush position that no election-related standard not in place before Election Day could be applied now, then Mr. Gore's challenge to the Palm Beach refusal to count dimpled ballots would also fail, the brief said.
They also argued that he had failed to properly brief the Mirabellis on the loans and their requirements.
