The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
Never believe anything until it's officially denied.
Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.
One reason you tend to doubt conspiracy theories when you've worked in government is because you know government is not nearly competent enough to carry off elaborate theories
When people ask me if I have worked for the C.I.A., I often answer: what good to you is my answer? Because if I did, I might not say so.
Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their public utterances, private meetings, and actions, the al Qaeda threat barely registered.
The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.
When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.
I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
The government doesn't go about refuting everything that floats around.
The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.
Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.
