In order to heighten a sense of urgency, its representatives exaggerated the notion of imminent threat by twisting information on weapons of mass destruction and by encouraging a direct connection, in the public's mind, between Saddam and September 11th.
When Mr. Tenet arrives on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, he may encounter suspicion from conservative Republicans who charge he has undermined the president and from liberal Democrats who say his warnings underscore the degree to which the White House sought to twist information to fit its arguments.
"They twist information, subtract some or add some information that could have never happened".
Mr. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was named in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak on July 14, eight days after Mr. Wilson, in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times, said the administration had twisted intelligence information about Iraq's possible purchase of uranium from Niger.
These practices are acceptable, she said, because their purpose is not to disguise or twist scientific information, but to make it clearer.
He volunteered that the trade group is spending $22 million on advertisements this year, but declined to disclose its support for allies, arguing that industry critics would "misconstrue, misinterpret and twist" the information "to villify America's premier high technology industry".
Her husband was, and is, Joe Wilson, who in 2003 had the nerve to say that Hussein didn't have a nuclear program and that the Bush administration was twisting the information.
Chuck then reveals the truth that Vivian's father Alexei Volkoff was Agent X . Rileytwists the information to further manipulate and shape Vivian, only to be shot and killed by Sarah.
This keeps you from over-studying and really twisting the information around, making yourself scared in the process.
Gas-light-ing (gas-lighting) v. 1. a form of mental abuse in which information is twisted or spun 2. false information presented with the intent of making victims doubt their own perception and reality.
