I want to state that the remarks attributed to me in this interview do not accurately reflect the discussion with Onkar Singh. Citing a faulty tape recorder, Mr. Singh did not record my comments but transcribed our fifteen-minute conversation into the staccato sentences posted on this website. I did not, for example, ever assert, "We got more from the government of Manmohan Singh." What I did say was that the Singh government sought more from the United States than the NDA government, namely full civil nuclear cooperation and, accordingly, made appropriate commitments towards that end. Similarly, the question, "What is it that you wanted from the Vajpayee government but could not get?" was never asked of me. "What did the Vajpayee government offer in 2002?" is the question I responded to. The same goes for the discussion on the United States, China, and India, where I denied that the United States needed a nuclear deal to buy Indias support against China or that containment of China was current U.S. policy. It is indeed unfortunate that Mr. Singh chose to post his redaction of my remarkswhich is different, both in content and tonerather than my original answers in full.
