成人英语三级阅读理解(68)

The White House admitted that the president's assertion in his State of the Union Address that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa was based on unsubstantiated, and possibly false, information. Some former official commented, "I think they've made a terrible mistake, at least leaving the impression that if the boss wants the conclusion to be A, you're going to deliver intelligence in order for that conclusion to be A, because that's what he wants."

白宫承认总统做国情咨文时称伊拉克从非洲购买铀是建立在没确凿根据，甚至是有可能捏造的信息上的。有某个前政府官员评论说，“我想他们犯了一个严重的错误，至少让人认为如果老板想要一个为A的结论，那么你就要交上去能达成A结论的信息，因为那是老板要的”。