"I know lots of other soldiers have nothing good to say about the rehabilitation process but I cannot fault it, " he said.

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On the other hand -- and I take some fault for this -- at the end of the process when we were fighting through all these filibusters and trying to get it done quickly so that we could pivot and start talking about other issues that were so important to the American people, some of that transparency got lost.

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Now, at this stage in the review process it appears that this incident was not the fault of a single individual or organization, but rather a systemic failure across organizations and agencies.

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Ross argued the introduction of compliance forms to the BBC production process in the wake of "Sachsgate" was not his fault.

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