Far from being the victim of a predatory older man, as Islam's detractors try to make out, Aisha comes across as an attractively feisty young woman, devoted to her husband and so jealous of rivals that she is unafraid to question the verses that authorise him to take others to his bed.
Clifford says that Burrell authorised him to send the fax as a "pitch" but the former butler says he hired the PR man to limit bad press coverage about him and any agreement was terminated before the fax was sent – the day after Burrell was acquitted at the Old Bailey of stealing items belonging to Princess Diana.
He helped to replace Mr McCain's immigration-reform bill with a harsher measure that authorised the building of a 700-mile (1,100km) fence along the Mexican border.
John Nott, the then defence secretary and a member of the war cabinet that authorised the sinking, said it was "one of the easiest decisions of the war".
Speaking as a witness during the first public hearings into the Snowden revelations, Judge Robertson said that without an adversarial debate the courts should not be expected to create a secret body of law that authorised such broad surveillance programmes.
"I am reporting back to the council sub-committee that authorised the investigation and asking them for further instructions.
The CIA and the US Department of Justice that authorised the secret interrogation programme in the wake of 9/11, euphemistically referred to its content as "enhanced interrogation techniques".
"The new licence authorises a three-week control operation to be carried out this autumn and supplements that authorised under the original four-year licence granted in October last year," it said on its website.
A man has been sentenced to eight months in prison, after he was found guilty of threatening a London city councillor who chaired the committee that authorised the closure of club Fabric.
Eichmann later testified that Berlin had authorised him to allow emigration of a million Jews in exchange for 10,000 trucks equipped to handle the wintry conditions on the Eastern Front.
