Re: C.I.A. Plays It Safe by Accentuating the Negative

[Daniel Davies <dsquared@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

a Member of Parliament is "the Honourable Member for Bogarse South".  A
Privy Councillor is "The Right Honourable".  Debrett's would encourage you
to refer to a younger child of a hereditary peer as "the Honourable" as a
courtesy title in the absence of any other title, but this practice is on
the way out.  "Honorable" spelled the American way, your guess is as good as
mine.

dd

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From: PEN-L list [mailto:PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Devine,
James
Sent: 23 July 2004 02:18
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Subject: Re: C.I.A. Plays It Safe by Accentuating the Negative


Michael Pollak writes: [An obvious point but a good one to keep in mind:
there are always at
least two very strong incentives toward threat assessment inflation: CYA
and the drive for institutional expansion]

speaking of "threat assessment inflation," there was an ad by the Committee
on the Present Danger in the NY TIMES yesterday. That kind of inflation is
their business.

some of them were called "honorable" as their titles. What makes someone
officially "honorable"?
jim devine