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We're now back to the debate around the term "bugs". Continuing with the minutes from the board meeting, Susan Crichton is shown a note that asks if she was implicated in the prosecutions - to which she tells the inquiry she was not.
A July 2013 email from Martin Edwards includes a briefing note for a meeting with Lord Arbuthnot. Blake asks Crichton if she recalls being part of the group responsible for drafting the briefing note. She says she doesn't remember it, but "obviously I was". She says it was her understanding the board wanted to know if it was her who was bringing the prosecutions against the sub-postmasters.
Scrolling through the note, Blake points to a paragraph that says, "we know of two system exceptions (anomalies)" under the current Horizon IT system. The minutes show the board "expressed strong views" about the management of the Second Sight review.
"Can you see everything's now being called an 'exception' rather than a 'bug'?" Blake asks. He recalls that this is the language suggested by Paula Vennells' husband. But notes show it was accepted that the process was made "complicated" by the review being independent, along with input from MPs and the Justice For Sub-postmasters Alliance (JFSA).
Blake describes the use of the word "exception" instead of "bug" as "absolutely Orwellian".
Crichton says she can't remember being part of a conversation about wording.
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