Sen. Biden proclaimed himself uninterested in the methodological dispute between Petraeus’ command and the GAO. But when Petraeus reaffirmed that the last five weeks of positive data collection on civilian casualties would have changed the GAO’s skeptical assessment of the surge, Biden arched an eyebrow. “Five weeks is a moment,” Biden said.
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