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Office that these diplomats instituted. so we are they're going to do with this memo, we do not know. they're considering sending it to senior leadership, and the list of diplomats and senior service officers continues to grow, carol. >> are some of these officials currently working? >> reporter: that's right, carol, this is a channel for career civil service officers to provide the leadership with an alternative view. these are sitting foreign service officers and career diplomats with a lot of concern about the new president's policy, carol. >> interesting. elise labott reporting live for us...

Iraq, sure, eventually the word came down, everyone agreed. but then we found out there was disagreement. to your knowledge, did they all come to the same conclusion, the various intelligence agencies? >> to my knowledge, i have no knowledge of any agency that was at the center or anybody who had you know, an alternative theory. and i do know, i think it is safe to say that they had a whole team that ran a scenario to try to test their theory to see if there was any possibility that they could come up with an alternative view to come up with it. and the answer is, they could not. >> david, is ...

Came down, everyone agreed. but then we found out there was disagreement. to your knowledge, did they all come to the same conclusion, the various intelligence agencies? >> to my knowledge, i have no knowledge of any agency that was at the center or anybody who had you know, an alternative theory. and i do know, i think it is safe to say that they had a whole team that ran a scenario to try to test their theory to see if there was any possibility that they could come up with an alternative view to come up with it. and the answer is, they could not. >> david, is congress going to insist on a pu...

So i think that speaks for itself. >> i'm going to press just a little bit harder here, john. mr. secretary, if i can. out -- in iraq, sure, eventually the word came down, everybody agreed. then we found out there was disagreement. to your knowledge, did they all come to the same conclusion, their various intelligence agencies? >> to my knowledge -- i have no knowledge of any agency that was a dissenter or anybody who had an alternative theory, and i do know, i think it's safe to say, that they had a whole team that ran a scenario to try to test their theory to see if there was any possibility...

So, you know, i think that speaks for itself. >> well, i'm going to press just a little bit harder here, john, mr. secretary, if i can. out of all the different agencies -- because i remember in iraq, sure, eventually the word came down, everyone agreed. then we found out there was disagreement. to your knowledge, did they all come to the same conclusion, the various intelligence agencies? >> to my knowledge, i have no knowledge of any agency that was a dissenter or anybody who had, you know, an alternative theory. i do know, i think it's safe to say that they had a whole team that ran a scena...