Exhibit 391

Press Briefing by Dana Perino

Exhibit 391 · Press briefing transcript

That does not mean that anybody purposefully lied.

Press Secretary's response to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Phase II report on the day it was released.

Source: The White House (Press Secretary Dana Perino)
Date: 5 June 2008
Quoted from: answer to the first question on the Senate report
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/06/20080605-5.html
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Same briefing: 'The majority report today is a selective view.'; 'That dissent, amongst experts within the intelligence community at some levels, did not reach the President.'

Cited by

Finding DEF-2.6: Primary record The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's 2008 report, approved 10-5, found that most statements by senior officials on Iraq's weapons programs were substantiated by the intelligence available at the time, and that several of them did not convey the intelligence community's disagreement or the limits of its certainty. It found that statements suggesting an Iraq-al-Qa'ida partnership were not substantiated and that statements about Saddam Hussein giving weapons of mass destruction to terrorists were contradicted by the intelligence.