Re: BBC NEWS | Politics | Byers reprimanded for Railtrack


"Simon Wren" <simonw100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> dwb wrote:
>> Nick wrote:
>>
>>> "Ex-Transport Secretary Stephen Byers has been cleared of lying to
>>> MPs about Railtrack but told to apologise for telling an
> "untruth"."
>>>
>>> More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4665498.stm
>>
>> What a shock. Not.
>
> But he did not lie ....
>
> "We do not believe, on the evidence we have seen, that Mr Byers lied
> to the transport sub-committee as alleged," says the committee.
>
> So untruths and lies are different...
>
>
I guess they are different. An untruth could be giving erroneous information
unknowingly, whereas it is pretty obvious that a lie is told deliberately to
deceive.

I am making no comment on the Byers case in that regard but I don't think
taking Railtrack back under state control was the worst thing that could
have happened.

ROB


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