"I am confident that there are reasonable and sound operational reasons for the edits," Paulson said, explaining that "for the very same reasons that we have edited the video," he would be unable to explain why the entire video was not screened.
He adds: "There are strong operational reasons for maintaining access to EU mechanisms that others may devise.
The senior officer, who is MI5 director Jonathan Evans's chief of staff but only identified at the hearing as Witness G, said there were "good operational reasons" for not pursuing the line of enquiry.
The five constructs were named "risk of addiction/dependence"; "operational reasons for not using morphine"; "risk of escalation"; "other (non-dependence) risks" and "external (non-operational) reasons".
The five components were named "risk of addiction/dependence"; "operational reasons for not using morphine"; "risk of escalation"; "other (non-dependence) risks" and "external (non-operational) reasons".
The 19 items were grouped into five constructs, tentatively termed "risk of addiction/dependence"; "operational reasons for not using morphine"; "risk of escalation"; "other (non-dependence) risks" and "external (non-operational) reasons".
The second construct, "operational reasons for not using morphine" clustered items related to perceived in-hospital obstacles to use morphine, such as its difficulty to dose and its association with end of life and palliative care.
Finally, the third one "external (non-operational) reasons for not using morphine" clustered items such as the fact that patients are against the prescription of morphine.
"However, this contains a number of logs initially graded at a lower priority which have later been upgraded to immediate for an operational reason and hence have failed the target time".
