U.S. caught lying to Brits re rendition sites, backtracks, endangers relationhip with U.K.

The CIA says it's really really bummed that the information the U.S. gave Britain ''turned out to be wrong.''

''Unfortunately, even with the best intentions, unfortunately, even with the most rigorous searches and, unfortunately, with good technology, sometimes administrative errors occur and this was the case. . . . We regret that there was an error in initially providing inaccurate information to a good friend and ally.''

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''Mistakes were made in the reporting of the information. . . . But we will continue to have a good counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and United Kingdom.''

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