“On July 10 [2003], when John Cochran of ABC News asked [Secretary of State Colin] Powell in Pretoria [South Africa] if the [Bush] administration owed the world an apology for having used the yellowcake claim, Powell dismissed the whole to-do: ‘This is very overwrought and overblown and overdrawn. …You get information, you analyze it. Sometimes, it holds up, sometimes it does not hold up.’ ”
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 267-268