There are at least three substantial items of protocol that go against what the corporate media is suggesting:
Firstly, there is little basis for a Congressman, even one who is the head of a Congressional Committee, to necessarily be granted virtually ad hoc on-the-record access to executive managers of another government's Intelligence departments or Services! Especially not if it seems, for all the world, like they've been caught doing something wrong and now some foreign politician is going to come over and what - scold them?
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| A really nice afternoon tea twist is mulled sherry with maple syrup cream |
Secondly, the status of 'Congressman' is not on the same level as salaried employees of a government department.
Thirdly, if it was a fact-finding endeavor there are already procedures and processes by which such interchanges will normally be sought, and might occur.
Additionally, the new Foreign Secretary of the UK, Jeremy Hunt just made an official visit to the US - was he snubbed as far as anyone knows, only to have Devin Nunes roll up at Whitehall in order potentially to receive an official snub in return (you know, just to see what might happen)...?
This bigoted myopic lunacy that has struck the modern press and general corporate media is not serving anyone at all, frankly.
For one thing, the Theresa May government can be considered politically fragile - why are the media, whose first interest seems to be in damaging the US government, rushing headlong into smashing up May's UK government at the same time as mere 'collateral damage?'
Devin Nunes is critically, not just a senior member of the US government, but he has a political role - I mean this is critical and fundamental to understand in our modern Western democracies. It just makes more sense on every test, that a political appointee therefore, or an official aide to the political function of the UK government, be designated to meet him.
And that's what happened.
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| Like many English things, sherry is a stolen thing - from Spain, you see; a word more on this down the bottom of the page... |
Not only that, but I hate to tell you guys from spook-land out there who monitor this blogspot, that Madeleine Alessandri is a spy...
And you know it. Or you should know it from her having received the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George from the Queen, and as such, it appears on the official public Gazette of the United Kingdom. All lawyers who appear either in the UK Gazette with 'foreign affairs' designations, or who are gazetted in the publication of the relevant foreign country in which they are working, are lawyers whose job is expressly to act for spies who get caught.
Didn't you know that?
Anyway, let's move back to afternoon tea in London.
Sailors in Liverpool docks (which is a great place and from which excellent English people hail) used to get stuck into the casks of imported Spanish sherry early in the mornings, see? And from this habit came the phrase 'Liverpool milk...' But when some clever wags sampled the Amontillado from Versos, they opined 'if that is Liverpool milk, then this is Bristol cream.'
And that is why we have this thing nowadays called 'Harveys Bristol Cream Sherry.'
