{"id":139,"date":"2006-12-15T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2006-12-15T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T12:44:00","slug":"today-and-jonathan-aitken-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/today-and-jonathan-aitken-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today and Jonathan Aitken 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Today<\/span> had <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jonathan Aitken<\/span> on &#8211; again. I&#8217;ve blogged on this <a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/today-and-jonathan-aitken.html\">before<\/a>. The discussion was on the decision by the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SFO<\/span> to drop their investigation into BAe. Last time they introduced  Aitken as the minister who &#8220;famously came unstuck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This morning <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">John Humphrys<\/span> introduced him like this:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Conservative government defence minister and he had responsibility for overseas defence sales, dealt a lot with Saudi Arabia&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aitken did indeed deal with Saudi Arabia and went to prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice to try and keep those dealings secret&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today had Jonathan Aitken on &#8211; again. I&#8217;ve blogged on this before. The discussion was on the decision by the SFO to drop their investigation into BAe. Last time they introduced Aitken as the minister who &#8220;famously came unstuck.&#8221; This morning John Humphrys introduced him like this: &#8220;Conservative government defence minister and he had responsibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,5],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}