US blocks publication of Chilcot Report (Iraq)

[pap]

The Chilcot report has a million words, is years overdue and has cost millions to produce. Yet the report into why and how Britain got into Iraq may never see the light of day in a useful form.

 

Teeny excerpt from this Indy article:-

 

officials in the White House and the US Department of State who have refused to sanction any declassification of critical pre- and post-war communications between George W Bush and Tony Blair.

Without permission from the US government, David Cameron faces the politically embarrassing situation of having to block evidence, on Washington’s orders, from being included in the report of an expensive and lengthy British inquiry.

 

Source:-

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-us-blocks-publication-of-chilcots-report-on-how-britain-went-to-war-with-iraq-8937772.html

 

Who's running this country, exactly?

[anothersaintinsouthsea]

Not surprising. The whole inquiry has been poorly managed and poorly conceived - makes a wishy washy bland conclusion all the more easy to reach. The panel was picked by Brown and didn't include one QC/barrister - no wonder Blair was able to run rings around them.

[pap]

Not surprising. The whole inquiry has been poorly managed and poorly conceived - makes a wishy washy bland conclusion all the more easy to reach. The panel was picked by Brown and didn't include one QC/barrister - no wonder Blair was able to run rings around them.

 

Well, that's the thing. Whitewash would have been my first call, but it'd appear that the report's contents are too spicy for global public consumption.

 

You have to wonder who would come out worse, Blair or Bush.

[CB Saint]

Publish and be damned, or at least arrange for a leak.

[Saint137]

Maybe accidentally post a copy to the Ecuadorian embassy?