The Chilcot Inquiry, Britain’s long sought public inquiry into the start of the Iraq War, has had its share of interesting testimony, but today the testimony got a little too interesting when Sir Jeremy Greenstock took the stand.
Sir Jeremy was discussing US failures in the wake of the 2003 invasion when suddenly the video feed was cut. Officials later confirmed that the Greenstock testimony was not victim of a technological error but had been censored outright as mentioning “sensitive information.”
British reporters say that they were urged not to report the censorship of testimony, and it has been reported that the blacked out moment included a claim from Sir Jeremy that US officials in Iraq preferred British intelligence reports because the US reports were overly optimistic and unreliable.
Spokesmen insisted the censorship was on the ground of “national security,” but the comments appear to have been innocuous, albeit embarrassing. This is raising concern that the open testimony, designed to give Britons closure for their role in the disastrous Iraq War, is going to be a whitewash which keeps anything potentially damaging from coming to light.
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From the generals to Socialist leaders, from a dictator in Iraq to warmongers in Africa all have been prosecuted for war crimes or act against humanity. Some have did while in detention, some been hanged and some waiting for the justice to be applied.. And all this been called justice done, here the English call their regime a democracy so as Americans. Almost every institutions that works for and is about democracy been calling the Iraq war a illegal act, the torture of Iraqis been illegal, the implementation of torture and its practice been called the illegal and inhuman acts.., yet the very same democracy is trying to prevent the justice that they have signed for and have representatives in such court to be implemented.., but when it comes to implementing the justice it seams that democracy wont pay attention to its own democracy where it says “justice for all“, in the other hand is good for justice to be done on those who have other colors and live in other part of this world.., but not to be done on those who talk about democracy and justice yet breaking the rules and principals in justice.
Nothing new under the sun here. Anytime government officials site national security as a pretext for secrecy you can bet with almost apodictic certainty it has nothing to do with national security. It has everything to do with some embarrassing or even criminal acts these same government officials want to cover up, or petains to some acts the government wants to perform, that if made public, would never be approved by anybody except these same government officials and their lickspittles in the corporate media.
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets" – Voltaire – and – "Because I do it with one small ship I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor." – a pirate from Saint Augustine's 'City of God'.
Had the Germans won WWII they would have hung Churchill, and the Allies for their war crimes.
Truth is indeed the first casualty of every war!
Who is there to hang Bush, Cheney, Blair, etc for their war crimes?
"Whitewash"? More like "hogwash." This, like the 9/11 Commission report is just a band-aid — a crumb thrown to try to assuage the angry, lied-to, masses.
Hang them all. But make them wait in jail, knowing their fates, for years, while flashing endless slideshows of their victims, Iraqis, Afghans, Palestinians, and Pakistanis. Oh, and Americans. Let these war criminals know what hell awaits them, and if there is no hell at least make sure that they go through some facsimile now.
Yeah, there was intelligence stove-piped by OSP and tentacles through the European networks as to increase pressure on domestic agencies and the President. The Rendon Group and others did the same with pro-war PR or perception management for legal reasons: publishing directly in the US would have been conflicting with anti-propaganda laws.