Although LeBaron noted that the station's coverage of the Middle East was "relatively free and open", he added: "Despite GOQ protestations to the contrary, al-Jazeera remains one of Qatar's most valuable political and diplomatic tools".
"In two hours of testimony, Haynes managed to get off no fewer than 23 don't recalls, 22 don't remembers, 16 don't knows, and various other protestations of memory loss," notes Dana Milbank.Mr Haynes's Alberto Gonzales-like performance was preceded by testimony from other Pentagon officials who summarily accused him of ignoring their concerns about the proposed interrogation techniques.
And his protestations not withstanding, many party and labor leaders, noting the speed at which Mr. Kerry is spending money on high-priced campaign talent, predict he will ultimately bow out of the presidential campaign finance system and tap his wife's fortune to finance his campaign.
We may note further that the executive, in forming a lay and random group into a committee supposedly capable of forecasting dramatic success, indicts, and in fact unsays, his protestation of his own possession of superior financial or mercantile powers.
Mr. Carter, a Yale law professor who has written thoughtful nonfiction books like "The Confirmation Mess" and "The Culture of Disbelief," has set his story largely in a New England town named Elm Harbor, which bears more than a passing resemblance to New Haven, despite his protestations (in an author's note) to the contrary.
and notes James B. Atkinson (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company 2012) 350 pp. In spite of his protestations to the reader that his work would concern itself with the "frivolous and futile," Montaigne has proven extraordinary company since the Essays originally appeared in 1580.
ALSO OF NOTE -- A riotously operatic court scene, with a pen full of defendants shouting protestations of innocence, beating up an informer and otherwise carrying on, is but one visual spectacle in Francesco Rosi's "Salvatore Giuliano".
No protestations of love.
Despite her public protestations.
Its protestations were widely scorned.
So why the continued protestations?
