If you're listening to her testimony before the Commons justice committee,   
   you're hearing Jody Wilson-Raybould do some major dodging of questions - even   
   though she's been reminded by several members that she has been given complete   
   freedom by the    
   government and legal types that she can speak openly on her complaints.   
      
   I'm hearing her dodge the question of why she did not resign after her   
   'demotion' to Veterans Affairs.   
      
   I'm hearing that discussions between the office of the Director of Public   
   Prosecutions can legally and commonly continue even after a DPP has ruled   
   against offering a Deferred Prosecution Agreement to an accused.   
      
   I'm hearing that once she decided not to approve a DPA, the line had been   
   drawn in the sand and "as Attorney General I had the final say and did not   
   appreciate any further overtures from the PM's office".  She decided to term   
   it "political interference    
   with the Attorney General".   
      
   When asked if she - in general terms - approved of DPAs as a method of process   
   in negotiations with an accused - she refused to answer.  "I feel that it's   
   not pertinent to this issue."  That drew a few pregnant pauses - and   
   challenges from several    
   members.   
      
   IOW - this seems to be an issue of a very stubborn Attorney General deciding   
   at a point that she'd made her decision "as Attorney General" and that she   
   wasn't going to entertain any more overtures and conversations to discuss the   
   ramifications of her    
   decision - even if those continued conversations were perfectly common and   
   legal.  She decided these common overtures were "interference with her   
   position as Attorney General".   
      
   I think we're going to see her 'ethical stance against political interference'   
   is going to be torn apart quite effectively by those with legal minds and this   
   will be relegated to another tempest-in-a-teapot created by a pretty testy   
   individual who got    
   demoted and didn't appreciate it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)