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"deliberately misleading"

So it seems that and aide to Colin Powell tried to cut off his interview with Tim Russert on this Sunday's meet the press. It is being mentioned all over the web this morning. I am a little more interested in Powell's answer to Russert's last question though:

"But I'm also comfortable that at the time that I made the presentation it reflected the collective judgment, the sound judgment, of the intelligence community, but it turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading.  And for that I'm disappointed, and I regret it."

Powell is about to go off the reservation here - if he knew he was "deliberately" misled, then he must also know who "deliberately" misled him. The plot thickens. I am not suggesting that the aide was trying to stifle his answer - she may just have been doing her job in keeping the interview to the allotted time (allegedly 10 minutes) but Powell's comment can not be taken lightly and the coincidence is interesting to say the least.