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Q Senator Rockefeller also specifically said today, he used the word "catastrophe" and said that ...

Q Senator Rockefeller also specifically said today, he used the word "catastrophe" and said that if the administration had been more careful with the intelligence, we may have been able to avoid this catastrophe, talking about the war in Iraq. How do you react to a statement like that?

MS. PERINO: Well, again, I think that the President and administration officials and the Congress were all working from the same intelligence and acting on the same information. And when the intelligence community tells you this -- gives you information, you have an obligation to look at it.

Now, is intelligence always going to be 100 percent right in the future? It can't be. It's just not the nature of the way that that works. But I do think that we have improved the process so much that it is unlikely that it could ever happen again.

Bret.

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