is it wrong that they feel they ve been intimidated? and pressurised into toeing the party line. is that wrong? |well, i would absolutely say that, | you know, intimidation in any walk of life would be wrong. i think in regards to the very. specific allegations being made by will wragg today. from pacac! indeed. marvellous acronym. look, all i would sayl is i do not recognise, as a government minister, - and as indeed the government minister responsible for public spending, | that account of how- government ever operates. not least because that s| never how i or any of my associates would behave. but also because the civil service, | of course, when i make a spending allegation i do so on the basis. of formal submissions by the civil service about, you know, - how x policy should be delivered, and that goes to y location.
well, i would absolutely say| that, you know, intimidation in any walk of life would be wrong. i i think in regards to the very. specific allegations being made by will wragg today. from pacac! indeed. marvellous acronym. look, all i would sayl is i do not recognise, as a government minister, - and as indeed the government minister responsible for public spending, | that account of how- government ever operates. not least because that s| never how i or any of my associates would behave. but also because the civil- service, of course, when i make a spending allegation i do so on the basis of formall submissions by the civil. service about, you know, how x policy should be i delivered, and that goes to y location. it simply wouldn t be possible for me to say to my civil- servants, well, strike that- name out because they haven t voted the right way. the system wouldn t allow it.
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unrest in ukraine, the cia has regularly updated policymakers to make sure they have an accurately and timely picture of the crisis. possible scenarios for russian military intervention in ukraine. any suggestion otherwise is flat wrong. so very strong pushback there. now, other sources have told me that among the scenarios that were discussed were things like we saw there. not necessarily a massive movement of troops across the border, but the ideas of troops that were already in those bases, in crimea, moving off the base and out into ukrainian territory, as well as the use of these ununiformed, unofficial armed gas tax gangs as a tool of power and that s what we saw in action today, forcing the u.n. official out. the other point i would make is this. in my old job when i had a security clearance that i ve read classified reports, i think that people have this impression they re black and white. they say x is going to happen tomorrow in y location. very rarely or never are they reall