That was how it appeared on the surface, but there was more behind the scenes than you were made privy to, General.

Before the war started, I was looking for a man who hired an assassin to kill Senator Amidala. I tracked him to Kamino, whose existence had been erased from the Jedi archives. It was there that I discovered that clones were being manufactured, and the man I was looking for was the template. Who claimed to be hired by a man named Tyranus. None other than you dear Count, as I would come to discover later.