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9:00am on Monday, 12th June, 2006:

Job Titles

Weird

Again on Radio 4's Today programme, there was an interview with Cully Stimson, a made-up name if ever I heard one. He was there in his capacity as US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee affairs.

Not US Secretary of Defense.

Not US Secretary of Defense for Detainee affairs.

Not US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee affairs.

No, as US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee affairs.

Well, that's put him in his place. He's deputy to the the assistant to someone who acts under the Secretary of Defense.

I wonder if he himself has assistants?

Name: Don Joe
Occupation: US Under Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee affairs.

Didn't this all disappear with the demise of Victorian country estates, and their acting deputy assistant second under-garderners?


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