and george bush's memoir dick cheney's donald rums fuld condoleezza rice's, they do not deal in reality. their basic approach on intelligence is the excellence was wrong. who knew? but, in fact, they knew. they knew that they were distorting the intelligence. george tenet, who probably distorted things more than anybody in '02 wrote the best memoir. he wrote a memoir that i think historians will look to for the truth of what happened and he said that the white paper, for example, was a major error and had been far too aer is tiff about -- assertive about weapons of mass destruction. and colin powell also has come clean and said it was a blot on his record. you'll recall his february 5th, '03, presentation to the united nations which was powerful, masterful and, of course, wrong. and he admits that now, and he says it's, you know, the biggest mistake he ever made. i've always thought and still think that he was the best of all of the folks that served president bush a truly remarkable american. so the question -- what are the lessons of all of this? how do we prevent this from happening