Thanks for this, Ted. It is indeed very chilling.
Sue
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|Ted Harding
|Sent: 04 November 2006 13:25
|To: [log in to unmask]
|Subject: John B Bellinger III -- World Service
|
|Hi Folks,
|
|Being up somewhat late last night, I heard Owen
|Bennett-Jones on the BBC World Service interviewing
|John B Bellinger III.
|
|Who he? Well,
|
| "John B Bellinger III, legal adviser to the US
| Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, talks to
| Owen Bennett-Jones on The Interview
|
| John B Bellinger III is at the heart of the
| disputes about America's prosecution of the
| war on terror.
|
| His daily beat is dealing with the Guantanamo
| Bay detention centre, the use of torture and
| the tensions between civil liberties and security.
|
| He's also touring the world to put America's
| position across."
|
|It's the most chilling case of evasive dodgy language
|and reasoning I've heard for a long time.
|
|If you want to judge whether he has "put America's
|position across", then you can listen to the interview
|at:
|
|http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/the_interview.shtml
|
|(for the time being directly from the page you see at
|the above URL; later it should go into "The Interview
|Archive" which you can access from the link at the top
|right of the above URL).
|
|In fact, I think he did put America's position across,
|though perhaps not as he intended it to be understood,
|thanks to some very shrewd interviewing by Owen Bennett-Jones.
|
|Best wishes to all,
|Ted.
|
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