Non Consensual if you're at Oxford - there's a different word for the rest of the world.Silkyman wrote:There seems to be a key word missing here.
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I'm pretty sure that if I admitted to that, I'd be rightly facing some hefty prison time and a lifelong stigma.
If you wondered why the reputation of British journalism was in the shitter, there's your answer.Liam Kirkaldy @HolyroodLiam 17h17 hours ago
The Telegraph's Frenchgate story on Nicola Sturgeon and the French ambassador has been nominated for the 2015 British Journalism Awards.
new puritan wrote:If you wondered why the reputation of British journalism was in the shitter, there's your answer.Liam Kirkaldy @HolyroodLiam 17h17 hours ago
The Telegraph's Frenchgate story on Nicola Sturgeon and the French ambassador has been nominated for the 2015 British Journalism Awards.
Electronic Telegraph
(London Telegraph)
Sunday 10 November 1996
BOMB THAT GAVE CLINTON VICTORY COULD STILL RETURN TO HAUNT HIM
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Washington
RELAXING on Air Force One after the election, Bill Clinton told
reporters it was the Oklahoma bombing that proved the turning-point in
his political fortunes.
It was the moment when the militias, the Christian Right and the
Gingrich onslaught against government, all melded together in the
public mind as one rampant movement of extremism. "It broke a spell in
the country as the people began searching for our common ground
again," said Clinton.
I was struck by the observation, because I have long believed that the
Oklahoma bombing was the spring-board for the remarkable come-back of
Clinton.
The lorry bomb that blew up the Murrah Federal building on April 19
1995, killing 168 people, was a traumatic event. Had it been carried
out by foreign radicals, the impact on the national psyche would have
been far less. But this was a home-grown conspiracy. Americans were
committing mass murder against other Americans. A class full of
infants in a day-care centre massacred in cold blood - by Americans.
Clinton seized the moment. He blamed Right-wing radio talk shows for
sowing distrust of government institutions and for creating a climate
of "hate" that fostered recourse to violence. He did not name the
Republicans as co-conspirators; he did not have to. The US media made
the connection for him.
Tim McVeigh was the military expression of the Gingrich agenda, opined
the commentators. Republicans had failed to understand that rhetoric
has consequences, and now look what had happened.
A few Republicans dared to reply that it was the deployment of tanks
and CS gas by a militarised FBI against women and children in Waco
that had set off the deadly spiral. But most of them were too
intimidated, or horrified, to articulate a defence. It worked like
magic for Clinton. With control over the Justice Department and the
FBI - which he has politicised to an extraordinary degree - he has
been able to shape perception of the bombing.
But what if the government has suppressed the full truth? What if the
most important investigation in modern history has been compromised to
ensure the re-election of the President?
These are not idle questions. A family that lost two children in the
day-care centre has accused the Justice Department of a cover-up.
After conducting their own private investigation for the past 18
months Glenn and Cathy Wilburn have amassed evidence suggesting that
the government had prior knowledge of the bombing - and negligently
failed to stop it.
They have demolished the prosecution claim that McVeigh acted alone at
the crime scene. The Wilburns have over 300 hours of taped testimony
from witnesses who spotted McVeigh with other men in Oklahoma City
between 8am and 9am on April 19. The last witness to see the Ryder
lorry as it pulled up in front of the Murrah Building, said that the
stocky man who got out of the driver's side looked nothing like the
tall, gangly McVeigh.
The Wilburns, and their daughter Eyde Smith, have now taken their case
to the Oklahoma courts. In a civil lawsuit they have named two men -
Michael Brescia and a former German army officer, Andreas Strassmeir -
as alleged accomplices of McVeigh. They have accused the Justice
Department of failing to pursue all the conspirators because one or
more of them were federal informants who had penetrated the bombing
ring.
Fortunately for Clinton this story did not break in the mainstream
media before the election. But it has been percolating gradually for
several months. A number of newspapers in Oklahoma, Kansas, and
Tennessee have reported the Wilburn allegations, and the Canadian
Broadcasting Company recently ran a documentary.
The Justice Department has immense power, of course. But I doubt that
it can keep the lid on this case for much longer. The truth will out,
and if it is shown that the Oklahoma bombing was a federal sting that
went wrong, and was then covered up under pressure from the White
House, Clinton will have a lot of explaining to do
- By Catkins
- By Cyclist