In straightforward, devastating testimony, Eliza Manningham-Buller told the Chilcot inquiry how she had warned about what sensible – but mostly frightened to speak out – senior Whitehall officials believed in 2003: that the invasion of Iraq would increase the terrorist threat to the UK.
Mr. Hoon told the Commons that he had had "no intention whatsoever other than to be open and straightforward" in his committee testimony.
Whether or not Trump and his team would like to punish Comey for his testimony seems more straightforward.
Trial testimony is rarely sufficiently straightforward to move a narrative along, especially when 17 unfamiliar names, mostly Chinese, are involved.
The question on nearly everyone's mind during James B. Comey's testimony Thursday seemed quite straightforward: Did it suggest that the president committed a crime?
In her testimony, Leonhart refused to answer the seemingly straightforward and obvious question of whether heroin or crack are worse for a person's health than marijuana.
Mirroring this calm testimony, Mr. Minn favors muted re-enactments over horrific images and straightforward witness accounts over melodramatic narration.
In fact, the testimony offered by Page and Strzok about the text presents a straightforward and believable explanation for a message that's become a shorthand for Trump's claims about what he says is a prejudiced investigation against him.
The panel, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, heard impassioned testimony on Wednesday on the need to make public pension numbers more straightforward, more closely mirroring the pension accounting for corporations.
"The situation on the ground in Colombia is increasingly complicated, but our policy is very straightforward," Brian E. Sheridan, the Defense Department coordinator for drug enforcement policy and support, said recently in testimony to a Congressional panel.
