"Our key judgment is that this year's election was the most free and fair in Taiwan's history," they said in a statement today.

The highlighted text stayed, but a summary sentence in the paper's "key judgments" was removed.

Beyond tubes, the estimate cited several other "key judgments" that supported its assessment.

Such "key judgments" are supposed to reflect the very best American intelligence.

Working with their agencies, representatives also assign the confidence levels to each key judgment.

Here are some examples of statements from the key judgments: Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear program.

In fact, that was not one of the "key judgments" of the document.

In fact, he shouts out his key judgments with eclat.

Osborne says the "key fiscal judgments" were kept to the secret.

This encourages testing of the key subordinate judgments that hold the estimative conclusion together.