Luti: No, Eric (sp), who took those reports and looked at them?

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Luti: The INC would remove them from Iraq to a different location.

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And they stopped doing their work before the Special Plans Office, if I have it straight, was actually created within Dr. Luti's organization.

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One of them is that, there have been several press articles that have identified this team with the Special Plans Office in Dr. Luti's organization.

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Luti: No, the information collection program was removed from the State Department and deposited into Defense HUMINT Service to ensure that proper tradecraft was used, accounting procedures.

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And I'd like to start with a review of some of these items, and then my colleague, Bill Luti and I will be happy to take some of your questions.

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William Luti, representing the Bush Administration.

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