Blair "Taken in for Questioning"?

[Foolmewunz]

Is England cool or what? Just doing some work at home listening to CNN in the background and heard, "And in the top story. Once again, 10 Downing Street has confirmed that Tony Blair has been taken in for questioning for a second time."(emphasis mine)

I try to imagine the posturing and pontificating if this was the USA! First among equals, indeed! I'm truly impressed.

And over on the BBC International? It's a story, not even the lead... it's number 2. If someone had asked Dubya down to the precinct for a chat, every channel would be cutting into the regular programming.


(Never mind that I don't know a thing about the topic it is all about,... it's just the civilized fairness of it all!)

 

[Darat]

Er no - the police interviewed him for a second time in relation to the ongoing "you pay a lot of money to a political party and you expect a gong - do bears excrete in the woods" investigation. He was interviewed at No 10 and not under caution or arrest.

 

[Foolmewunz]

Er no - the police interviewed him for a second time in relation to the ongoing "you pay a lot of money to a political party and you expect a gong - do bears excrete in the woods" investigation. He was interviewed at No 10 and not under caution or arrest.

Damn! Their writers are better than their newsreaders! The articles confirm your point, but I definitely heard it. I listened to the lead-in and headline four times, and the talking head definitely said "...taken in for questioning.." It won't be in any transcripts, though, as it wasn't the article itself but the headline/lead-in of the desk announcer. I guess she was just ad libbing and confused the term "questioned".

And I was getting so fond of CNN after the Anderson Cooper / 360 shows with Randi! Oh well, off to the second page with other embarassing assumptions. At least CNN didn't totally copy REO Speedwagon.

 

[BPSCG]

So you mean there won't be any shots of him with a coat draped over his crossed hands and a couple of bobbies assisting him into the back seat of the police car?

No being frog-marched out of #10 Downing before hundreds of reporters and cameramen?

Dang!

 

[Darat]

Not yet....

 

[Beerina]

I would find it hard to believe any state would allow it's head of state to be taken into custody by the local police. That's a vector to assasination.

And yes, although he's not technically that, he might as well be.

 

[brodski]

I would find it hard to believe any state would allow it's head of state to be taken into custody by the local police. That's a vector to assasination.

And yes, although he's not technically that, he might as well be.

He is not head of state (as you said), in fact he's barely even head of government (First Amongst Equals and all that), and he wasn't taken into custody he was interviewed in his home.
But I applaud this move- no one should be above the law.