I did not do this because I disagreed with the enhanced interrogation techniques that those memos authorised, or because I reject their legal rationale – although I do on both counts.
'Nobody had authorised me, because I was, and I am, a sort of conventional soul.
The home secretary, Theresa May, was angered when she discovered that a series of blunders meant the operations under the Terrorism Act 2000 had not been legally authorised, either because they exceeded the maximum legal 28-day limit in duration or had not been properly signed off by ministers within 48 hours.
It was not legal because he authorised it; it was because he said he would do nothing illegal and the justice department and the attorney general said that it was legal".
"I asked a question that is now seen as significant, which is, 'Who authorised the money?', because that's what they did during Watergate.
Excluded from the sample were physicians who were not authorised to prescribe, either because they were still interns or because they belonged to a specialty that is not permitted to prescribe (radiology, nuclear medicine, microbiology, haematology, anaesthesiology, forensic medicine).
The UN security council would never authorise it because Iran has not breached the terms of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
This is the US analysis of OP4 and is undoubtedly more consistent with the view that no further decision of the Council is necessary to authorise force, because it can be argued that the Council has determined in advance that any failure will be a material breach.
The NAO also found that the department spent £166m more than authorised by parliament, mainly because of an underestimate of increased pension costs in the academy sector.
You can't even make the argument that this is just a few bad apples because it was authorised by a justice of the peace.
