[lbo-talk] "more deductive than empirical"

[Doug Henwood]

What a lovely way to put it!

<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,455767-2,00.html>

"Over the past two weeks, TIME has interviewed several dozen current 
and former intelligence officials and experts at the Pentagon and cia 
and on Capitol Hill to try to understand how the public version of 
the intelligence got so far ahead of the evidence. The reporting 
suggests that from the start the process was more deductive than 
empirical...."