I kept going back to the big red Senate report.
The Senate report found that his safety was never in question.
Anyone reading the Senate investigative report could add a second question.
Some wondered whether service people in Iraq had read about the Senate report yet, and what they must be thinking.
But the Senate report said there was no written policy against such news conferences and cited several instances when they had been held in 1980's.
But government officials who have read the Senate report said it described many more mistakes and did so in abundant detail.
The Senate report disclosed deep concerns among intelligence agencies about the credibility of the information.
The intelligence agency declined to respond to the Senate report, but late in the day decided to make public its own report of the matter.
The British findings departed from Senate report in several other crucial areas.
To quote from the Senate report, "No one recalls how this occurred."