"Every eligible Missourian should be able to cast their ballot today, and my office will immediately respond to any reports of misinformation, " Carnahan said.

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But once it became public knowledge that part of the office's function was, allegedly, to sow deliberate misinformation to confound our adversaries, President Bush and his secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, backed off as if someone had handed them a dead rat.

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