I'm not sure where you're going making such a fine distinction between the word "lie" and the report's conclusion that ten of the statements were outright "false". If you want to go there, then consider that "misleading" implies an intention that perhaps "false" doesn't. Your interpretation would lead to the conclusion that 266 of 267 statements were deliberately intended to mislead, and the remaining 10 might be genuine mistakes.

I can see how that quote from the Robb-Silberman report can be read several ways, and to be honest, I was surprised that the report from a Republican-dominated commission investigating one of its own seemed to allow even a whiff of doubt. But if I'm too quick to see it as an indictment, I think you're being equally too eager to see it as exoneration. The size 12 shoe still to drop is the completion of the Senate's investigation, the one that Senate Democrats claim is being blocked by the Republican majority. You know the odds are better than 50/50 that 2006 will bring a Democratic Congress, so I don't think we can call the case closed until at least 2007 when the other side finally gets to conduct its own investigation. The current Republican Senate might try to rush through a whitewash before the next election to claim the last word, but you know that that won't keep the Democrats from making their own investigation as soon as they're free of Republican control.