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Pelosi press aide Brendan Daly told me that The Washington Post report on her CIA briefing was "overblown" because Pelosi, then the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, thought the techniques described, which the CIA insists included waterboarding, were merely planned and not yet in use.

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(It turned out that, like a good Frenchman, he was merely planning a squab casserole).

It's unclear from its blog whether Google is testing Bristlecone on a functioning system or is merely planning to develop a functional chip at some point in the future.

In reality, President Obama is merely planning to pledge a provisional target -- "the first time in more than a decade that an American administration has offered even a tentative promise to reduce production of climate-altering gases".

"The Pentagon is a clearly a target in a general sense," the chief spokesman for the Defense Department, Lawrence Di Rita, told reporters, adding that department officials were merely prudently planning for "what might you do differently in the wake of what we know has already happened once, and that is that we were attacked".

Upon investigation, it was found that these questions were merely suggestions, which Crowley evidently plans on ignoring in favor of those posed by a group of undecided voters.

Both men's budget plans were merely for the budget "overview" that Congress is supposed to pass before they get down to the much-harder task of the appropriations bills where every last dollar is accounted for.

Few slave rebellions were systematically planned, and most were merely spontaneous and quite short-lived disturbances by small groups of slaves.

He said Republicans were not planning cuts, but were merely trying to hold down Medicare spending increases to 7 percent a year from a projected 14 percent.

The two officers were called to the meeting at the attorney-general's request, although the Pentagon spokesman again contends that they were not involved in any strategic planning; they were merely there, he says, to provide expert opinion about "hostage situations".

Belichick said after the game that, without tight-end packages in the game plan, the Patriots were merely running their regular offense.

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