Insupportable innuendo

“Interference in criminal justice for political reasons would be a far more serious charge than a mere grubby oil deal, of which there are so many examples in both our and her own country’s history.”- Dr Jim Swire commenting in recent US attempts to connect BP, Megrahi, shady oil deals, Libya and the like.

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That there was a shady oil deal and it was lobbied for by BP to obtain Megrahi's freedom from the Scottish or UK governments is at most an insupportable innuendo. And that the US should complain about an interested party lobbying is entirely hypocritical. We all know that special interest groups have every right to pursue their sponsors' views. It is the whole business of Washington. Charles Norrie

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