Possibly. But I think Wolfinger may be backpedaling a bit too. He wants to issue a denial in light of what happened to the police chief, but he’s got to word it carefully in order to avoid lying.
I missed what he said before, to backpedal from.
-- He wants to issue a denial in light of what happened to the police chief, but he's got to word it carefully in order to avoid lying. --
Well, they met, so I don't think he's denying that. Chief Lee had other issues in this case, not just taking a direction contrary to the alleged Serino affidavit.
What sort of narrow denial do you find in "vehemently denies that any 'such meeting or communication occurred' between him and Lee."? CNN only quoted a short phrase there, I know.