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Another column by the same author in the WSJ with more details examining DNA testing:

Matching Science of DNA With Art of Identification

1 posted on 05/07/2011 1:13:45 PM PDT by UniqueViews
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To: UniqueViews
"Though a government official said that an initial test showed with 99.9% certainty that bin Laden had been killed, and later tests were "absolutely conclusive,"

Yeah. And "initial" government reports had him armed hiding behind a woman, too.

Our government is about as trustworthy and "transparent" as the Chicoms.

2 posted on 05/07/2011 1:17:33 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: UniqueViews
"Though a government official said that an initial test showed with 99.9% certainty that bin Laden had been killed, and later tests were "absolutely conclusive,"

Yeah. And "initial" government reports had him armed hiding behind a woman, too.

Our government is about as trustworthy and "transparent" as the Chicoms.

3 posted on 05/07/2011 1:18:23 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: UniqueViews
not all details have been released, including whose genetic material was used for comparison.

A monkey in west Africa, or a pig in Indonesia?

4 posted on 05/07/2011 1:31:46 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15.)
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To: UniqueViews

How many lives does he have? He was killed in a cave years ago. Then he pops up in a few videos. Then he was on his deathbed and on dialysis but again there were videos. Just last week he was healthy as a horse until the The Almighty Won himself put one between his eyes. How long until he’s posting more youtube videos?

The lesson, my children, if the truth can’t be told is to pick a simple story. Stick with that story. Never deviate from that story.


6 posted on 05/07/2011 1:39:53 PM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: UniqueViews
The statement of a 99.9% chance seems improper. Usually, such comparisons are expressed in a certain way. The DNA test language will utilize numbers expressed in a manner such as one in a billion.
8 posted on 05/07/2011 1:45:07 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((unite))
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To: UniqueViews
99.9% certainty

Let's say for argument's sake that there are 7 billion people on the planet (there will be in six months, I hear.) Then, the 0.1% of uncertainty could point to any one of 7 million people. No good, comrade!

9 posted on 05/07/2011 1:49:27 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: UniqueViews

The administration acquired the sample, transported the sample and compared it to a reference sample in the possession of the administration. So yes, there was a match. The administration agrees with itself.


13 posted on 05/07/2011 2:36:29 PM PDT by Ragnar54
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To: UniqueViews; All
The 99% was always a bogus PR-generated number which, along with the dozens of narrative revisions, undermined the White House's claims and in turn undercut faith in America's competence at the highest levels.

Al Queda agrees OBL is dead but that's not the point. Transparency is a big lie with this administration as it always is with Lefties who make it a campaign theme.

This week we saw new hires rise and the press pushed that message which is happy spin for Obama.

However we also saw unemployment rate go up with their explanation being more people are looking for work now. In other words, they ADMIT, their official unemployment number was not the actual number of unemployed and, just as critics had said, past gains made were because of people giving up the job hunt rather than being hired.

Official unemployment is up because people have reentered into the metric by looking for jobs because they've heard people are hiring again. They cook the books because they know we live in a sound-bite world with an uncritical press full of political allies.

It's just like the administration claiming there's no inflation because commodity prices of food and oil, where real people feel impact, are not in the phony official metric. Finance professionals know it but the numbers are used to mold and manipulate public perception.

As others have noted over the years W was attacked for unemployment numbers that had been called "full employment" under Clinton. Now that Obama's in, bad news will be cooked, spun, manipulated and reported in any way possible to make it sound like... progress.

17 posted on 05/07/2011 4:24:09 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Stay focused: Debt, Deficits & Immigration.)
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Does anyone else find the term "incontestable secret evidence" a weird construction?

-----as in "oxymoron?" Of course it's "incontestable,"......it's secret. ----sheeeesh.

18 posted on 05/07/2011 7:04:42 PM PDT by cookcounty (Resume item--- Barack Obama: Paid Spectator, US Senate, 2004-2008.)
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To: UniqueViews

I am waiting for the other shoe to drop!


19 posted on 05/07/2011 7:06:40 PM PDT by restornu
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To: UniqueViews

I still wonder how the administration can claim a DNA match on the same night as the killing. DNA analysis is never done this quickly, especially from an arab country.


22 posted on 05/08/2011 12:34:36 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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