As these chaotic bureaucratic and legal bungles further undermined any prospect of a fair trial, KSM took the opportunity to refresh his image.
Transparency and accountability are Mr Hunt's watchwords in a corner of his Whitehall office a whiteboard details "never events", as dire medical bungles are called.
Neither of these shortcomings can be rapidly fixed, so the use of the new standards is bound to be fraught with bungles and misjudgments.
The New York Yankees, a baseball team, now refers online orders to Ticketmaster after its own bungles angered fans.But the advantage might not always lie with an agency such as Ticketmaster.
And, while neighbours keep pace with Malaysia's recovery prospects, Dr Mahathir is making some bungles.
History shows that Saudi Arabia talks a lot about price stability, but in practice engineers (or bungles its way into) occasional price collapses that splash cold water on potential investments in marginal projects such as those in Alberta.
But Iran denies this, and after the intelligence bungles in Iraq such claims need to be examined with care.
Since the beginning of 1994, the six biggest risk-management bungles by financial institutions have cost a combined $4 billion (see table).
Offering too many jazzy options for new cars, say, may not only confuse consumers but add to production costs and increase the potential for factory-floor bungles.
But moving it anywhere else in Japan will face local resistance too.As Yoichi Funabashi, editor of Asahi Shimbun puts it, if the new administration bungles relations with Washington, it will look diplomatically inept at a time when power relations in Asia are shifting fast.
That is well below the 5% needed to make a serious dent in unemployment, which remains stubbornly above 25% by official estimates; some say the real figure is as high as 40%.Among the reasons for such lacklustre growth are sclerotic labour laws and bungles by the government.
