A British legal tribunal today ruled that the government must release the details of a phone conversation between Prime Minister Tony Blair and George W. Bush on March 12, 2003.
The ruling said “The details of the conversation have been kept secret for nearly a decade, but reportedly included a discussion between Blair and Bush of whether or not to seek UN authorization to attack Iraq. Ultimately they did not.
The Foreign Office had demanded to keep the files related to the conversation secret, saying that allowing any part of the discussion to go public would do “serious damage” to UK-US relations.
This has been a common tactic for British officials, arguing that things need to be kept secret to avoid enraging the US. Last month, British spies said that the CIA had deliberately withheld information about a possible terror attack in the UK, saying they feared that courts would go public with the details.
The conversations between Tony Blair Witch Project and George Warmonger Bush should be released to the world. So should conversations between Ehud Barack Obomba and other world leaders.
Somehow I just don't believe that despite the court orders the UK gov't is going to just toss Blair (and Bush) under the double-decker. If they release anything it'll be heavily redacted – that Official Secrets Act excuse, you know – wouldn't want to let the common man know how the elites really don't care about the laws the rest of us have to live by.
CIA will respond with a new mission for drones: destroying evidence.
Great! Now there won't be any missunderstatements about it.