{"id":66,"date":"2004-02-09T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2004-02-09T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T02:07:21","slug":"quote-lord-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2004\/02\/09\/quote-lord-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote: Lord Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/guardianpolitics\/story\/0,3605,1140371,00.html\">Lord Butler<\/a>: &#8220;You have to be selective about the facts &#8230; It does not follow that you mislead people. You just do not give the full information &#8230; It is not justified to mislead, but very often one is finding oneself in a position where you have to give an answer that is not the whole truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(This is the same Lord Butler who is now investigating government intelligence gathering before the Iraq war.)&#038;nbsp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Butler: &#8220;You have to be selective about the facts &#8230; It does not follow that you mislead people. You just do not give the full information &#8230; It is not justified to mislead, but very often one is finding oneself in a position where you have to give an answer that is not the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2004\/02\/09\/quote-lord-butler\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote: Lord Butler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}