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BLAIR TO BE CALLED FOR BRITISH IRAQ INQUIRY
Independent, UK - Tony Blair will be called to give evidence to the Iraq war inquiry, its chairman confirmed today. Sir John Chilcot warned that his team would "not shy away from making criticism" if they uncovered mistakes. Launching the long-awaited inquiry, Sir John said the former prime minister, who sent British forces into the conflict alongside the US, would be among witnesses called.
He repeated his insistence that, "wherever possible", evidence would be heard in public, perhaps live on television, but some sessions would remain behind closed doors, "consistent with the need to protect national security, sometimes to ensure complete candor and openness from witnesses".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol...64775.html
Remind me why we shouldn't expect a Warren/9-11/Diana-style whitewash from all this.
Charles Drago Wrote:Remind me why we shouldn't expect a Warren/9-11/Diana-style whitewash from all this.
...sorry, I can't think of why we shouldn't...in fact we almost certainly should - its a 'done deal' cover-up from the get-go. :burnout:
Quote:Iraq inquiry 'should be held in public'
Updated on 18 June 2009
Source ITN
Pressure is growing on the Government to hold an inquiry into the Iraq war in public.
Former Prime Minister Sir John Major said the inquiry risked being denounced as a "whitewash" unless there was full disclosure with witnesses giving evidence on oath, and the decision to hold it behind closed doors was "inexplicable".
And Lord Butler, who led a probe into intelligence about weapons of mass destruction, said: "The form of the inquiry proposed by the Government has been dictated more by the Government's political interest than the national interest and it cannot achieve the purpose of purging mistrust."
He told the Lords the inquiry should not just learn lessons about the war but have an element of a "truth and reconciliation" commission to it.
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk...ic/3218732
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There ya have it.
The purpose of the whitewash is to "purge mistrust" about the government's motives for invading Iraq.
And in the highly unlikely event that Tony Blair is found to have been mistaken or to have manipulated public opinion, there won't be any recriminations or prosecutions. Just Truth and Reconciliation.
I've now wasted a minute of my life contemplating this charade....
I guess they can start writing the Public version of the Report even before they hold any private hearings....as the results are foregone conclusions :marchmellow:
Charles Drago Wrote:Remind me why we shouldn't expect a Warren/9-11/Diana-style whitewash from all this.
Here are a whole boatload of reasons why that's EXACTLY what we SHOULD expect.
Trowbridge Ford is prolific with his 'Deep-State shenanigans' output. Over the past year or two I've been somewhat bemused by much of it. For sure the guy knows his way around UK Police/Security State issues though, even if some of his speculations - often presented as fact - are at face value bizarre. I guess I should qualify that with the observation that there is a sort of tongue-in-cheek uber-provocative quality to some of it - maybe intended to provoke some sort of SIS response - or whatever. Anyway, his latest piece on the Chilcot Inquiry is a good read. It is a grand tour of Sir John Chilcot's involvement in covering Establishment backsides on such apparently diverse matters as: multiple blowbacks for dirty tricks against the IRA, the murder of Olaf Palme, the Stalker Inquiry, the murder of Daniel Morgan, corruption in Met Police high places; the death of Greater Manchester Chief Constable Mike Todd plus assorted other embarrassments and all of them apparently connected by more than just Sir John's laundryman activity.
[URL="http://cryptome.org/0001/chilcot-inquiry.htm"]The piece is a bit long to post here but his parting shot is:
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"With a track record like this, anyone who expects any surprises from the Chilcot Inquiry will be sadly disappointed."
That, IMHO, hits the nail squarely on the head.
Ah, decisions...which liar do we believe?
Quote:Campbell says Blair blocked Iraq war advice
Sunday 24 June 2012
by Rory MacKinnon
Peace activists demanded that Tony Blair be put back on the witness stand and then in the dock today after his former spin doctor revealed explosive new details about the run-up to the illegal Iraq war.
The disgraced ex-PM barred his the attorney general from giving his ministers "nuanced" advice against invading, according to the newly published fourth book of Alastair Campbell's diaries.
Mr Campbell wrote that then-attorney general Lord Goldsmith had wanted to "put the reality" of the situation to the Cabinet before Blair blocked his report.
Lord Goldsmith had written a legal opinion to Blair on March 7 2003 stating that there was a "reasonable case" for the war but "also a case to be made the other way."
Yet less than a week later Lord Goldsmith chopped his opinion to just a single page after Blair's staff told him that the PM would "simply say the advice said there was a reasonable case."
Some estimates put the Iraq war's death toll at 1.5 million, including the knock-on effects of destroyed infrastructure and sectarian violence.
And anti-war activists said the fresh revelations meant that Mr Blair, Mr Campbell and Lord Goldsmith must be called back to the Chilcot inquiry into the war, which is now preparing its final report.
Stop the War Coalition's Lindsey German said it was a last chance to correct the official history.
"I think that this is yet another piece of evidence that Blair set out to mislead not just the British public but his own Cabinet," she said.
The fact that it came from "partner-in-crime" Alastair Campbell made it even more damning, she added.
But the world would "never, never, never" forgive Blair, no matter what the inquiry decided: "There will always be people around the world who see him as a war criminal."
Mr Campbell downplayed the story today, insisting that the attorney general was not at the time offering a "formal opinion."
Mr Campbell said he was "sure" that Cabinet ministers had already been familiar with the argument that an invasion would be illegal under international law, as it "had been well travelled in the press."
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index...ull/120626
Quote:Mr Campbell said last night: "Peter Goldsmith's legal opinion is in the public domain and it was no secret he had concerns at various points. This is entirely consistent with what he and Tony Blair said to the Chilcot inquiry."
Fuck Campbell.
Still spinning like a top.
Still getting paid.
Still full of shit.