Thread by @A_Liberty_Rebel

Chair of Commons DCMS Select Ctte giving ex #BBC D-G Lord Hall-Hall a serious grilling on the re-hiring of Bashir.
Haw-Haw being evasive, in effect blaming subordinates.
Obviously no sign on 𝘩𝘪𝘴 desk saying "The buck stops here" to go with his salary.

Chair: How was this known liar (Bashir) being paid"
Haw-Haw denies knowledge of, or involvement in, Bashir's pay arrangements, on grounds he was trying to run the whole of the #BBC.
"Nothing to do with me, Guv".

Lord Hall-Hall insists no knowledge of how Bashir came to be allowed to, in effect, moonlight at ITV while being paid by the #BBC.
Taking 'hands-off' management to a whole new level, presumably.
#DCMSSelectCtte

Haw-Haw: we didn't ever get to the bottom of the lies that Bashir was telling us.
Yet they apparently re-hired him all the same, & even turned a blind eye to his alleged moonlighting with ITV.
#DefundTheBBC
#DCMSSelectCtte

DCMS Chair to Haw-Haw:
"You had this guy who was proven to have secured the greatest scoop of the century by, let's face it, faking, forging, documents, and your main concern on re-hiring him was how sorry he was? That's priceless"
#DCMSSelectCtte

Apparently, the #BBC under Lord Hall-Hall needed official guidelines to explain to its reporters that obtaining a story on the basis of forged or fake documents wasn't necessarily best practice.
#DefundTheBBC
#DCMSSelectCtte

DCMS Efford: "You had this particular guy (Bashir) being re-employed, and yet no-one thought to knock on your door and tell you as D-G that he was being re-employed?"
Haw-Haw: "No, they didn't"