1. It was the second day of meetings, following talks on Saturday that focused on the package and Iran‘s Aug. 22 reply to it, which Western leaders criticised as obfuscatory.

2. Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani said Saturday‘s three hours of talks in Vienna focused on the package and Iran‘s August 22 reply to it, which Western leaders criticized as obfuscatory.

3. That‘s one thing the Decider didn‘t tell us Wednesday in his forceful yet obfuscatory speech confirming the existence of the CIA prisons and announcing the transfer of 14 detainees to Guantanamo Bay, including boldface–name miscreants such as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh and Abu Zubaida.

4. Asked about comments she made to a Japanese television interviewer criticizing previous rounds of the Six–Party Talks, Rice said North Korea had used the talks for obfuscatory purposes.   "[T]hat pattern has to be broken," she said. Rice insisted that the issues being negotiated are not bilateral matters between the United States and North Korea.  "[T]he North Koreans could have made a decision at any time to give up their nuclear weapons program, which is, after all, the demand that has been made of them by all of their neighbors," she said. "It is, by the way, what they signed onto in 1''1, that they wouldn‘t possess or develop or have these programs." In 1''1, North and South Korea signed a bilateral agreement on eliminating nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula.