Mr Taylor will not plead guilty because the facts are there. Even if they take the case to The Hague and they are transparent, Mr Taylor will be acquitted.

I regret that I had to report the facts yesterday, which is that (unfettered access) had not been given, and we can't adequately do our jobs under these circumstances.

Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.

We will continue to do everything we can to get to get the facts and complete our investigation as quickly as possible,

We will only be able to talk about sanctions after we have concrete facts confirming that Iran is not exclusively involved in peaceful nuclear activities.

The Fed wants everyone to know that rates are going nowhere and will not let facts get in the way,