Cliffs Notes used to drive US policy

Verbal Jazz has learned that the discrepancies between the 9/11 Commission's intelligence full recommendations and those being adopted by the Administration has to do with the Administration only studying the Cliffs Notes version of the 9/11 Commission's report. A spokesperson for Clffs Notes states that the abbreviated version of the report is only meant to serve as a study guide and not direct US policy. An administration official, speaking on conditions of anonymity said, "The Cliff [sic] notes are good enough for us; we also used them to determine that Iraq had weapons of mass destruciton and ties to Al-Qaeda. If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

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