But he was forgiving of Mr. Lo's more obvious misstatements, saying that Mr. Lo's recollections of what he felt in the chaos around the crime may simply be mistaken.
"You should absolutely expect her to be nervous around authority and to make some misstatements," said Mr. Yoo, a corporate lawyer.
Critical Path Inc., which is investigating its own accounting practices after finding possible sales misstatements, said its chief executive, Douglas T. Hickey, and its president, David Thatcher, have left.
The adviser, Steve Schmidt, also suggested that Mrs. Clinton's comment about Bosnia could haunt her, especially if she keeps making such misstatements as saying Mr. McCain wants to keep American troops in Iraq for 100 years.
"A misstatement," he said yesterday.
"And the suggestion that somehow it's hard times out there, I just think is a misstatement," he said.
"It was a misstatement," Rodriguez said.
(In court, he admitted misstatements but says he still believes some of what Princeton presented was inaccurate).
The best part of the recurring "Fox & Friends" parodies on "Saturday Night Live" is nearly always the "corrections" segment at the end, when the dimwitted hosts Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade grin blankly into the camera as corrections of misstatements they said on the show fly by.
Professor Rakove disagreed with that, saying misstatements about Madison's letter to Coxe showed how proponents of an individual right to arms distorted history.
