"We strongly disagree with the staff's conclusions".
After a European court overturned three of the commission's vetoes of mergers in 2002, Mr. Monti instituted sweeping changes -- recruiting a chief economist to analyze mergers from a business perspective, and appointing "devil's advocates" to cross-examine his staff's conclusions.
The final report encompasses a whopping 6,300 pages, complete with a nearly 400-page executive summary outlining the Democratic staff's conclusions about interrogation techniques and whether any of them produced valuable intelligence on al Qaeda operatives on the run or future terrorist attacks that were set to take place.
Finally, lack of a control condition, treatment attendance and compliance measures for patients, and treatment fidelity or manual adherence measures for staff limits conclusions regarding the actual impact of the specific psychiatric intervention.
"It does not alter the staff's conclusion that there would not be any significant environmental consequences of a terrorist attack," she said.
Even so, the committee agreed with its own staff's conclusion that the overlap of lawmaking and fund-raising activity was innocent "happenstance".
Jennifer Engle, a Fidelity spokeswoman, said the fund company has assigned an Aaa designation to Farmer Mac's notes based on the research staff's conclusion that the notes were "of equivalent quality".
Presentation of Findings: Findings of the evaluation (PowerPoint presentation) shared with UNICEF management and staff at conclusion of in-country visit.
In other words, it was an assessment of the evidence being combed through by committee staff, and the conclusions that might be drawn, which included "acknowledgement of significant CIA wrongdoing", Feinstein said.
These are among the staff reports' other conclusions, based on intelligence reports from interrogated Qaeda leaders and other evidence: Terrorist training camps run by Al Qaeda were "apparently quite good" and "the camps created a climate in which trainees and other personnel were free to think creatively about ways to commit mass murder".
