Orwellian Newspeak rears its ugly head again – this time by the head of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller. She said:
"Experience proves that detainee reporting can be accurate and may enable lives to be saved."
"Detainee reporting" strikes me as a particularly slimy phrase. As Justin, over at Chicken Yoghurt points out:
"You know what it means. I know what it means. She knows what it means. But she can pretend it doesn’t mean what she knows it means and so can the rest of us if we like".
Read the rest of Justin’s piece. It’s worth it. And I know that if I was being tortured, I’d say whatever it was I thought the torturers wanted to hear in a vain attempt to get them to stop, just stop, please stop. So the phrase "can be accurate" has very little real meaning as far as I can see.
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