A textbook example, indeed
A textbook example of how you close your eyes, and keep repeating that which has already been refuted.
But still you persist:
The "inaccuracy" mentioned by the DOD is that new information had been released, or fully analyzed reports were being referred to.
No Tom, the inaccuracy resides in those news reports which incorrectly claimed that the DOD confirmed contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq.
I've already gone to great lengths to help you out with this, so for one last time:
News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate.
Subject: News reports
Verb: are
Predicate nominative: inaccurate.
Reduced to its basic structure,the sentence reads:
News reports are inaccurate.
To reword the sentence for clarity, you could say;
Inaccurate news reports claimed that the DOD had confirmed contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq.
In other words, the news reports were wrong because The DOD did not confirm any contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq.
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