Allegations that Britain’s Brown government was conspiring to foil the Chilcot Inquiry into the British invasion of Iraq were confirmed today when a WikiLeaks cable from 2009 showed that Defense Ministry official Jon Day promised the United States that the Brown government had “put measures in place to protect your interests” during the inquiry.
Officials within the Chilcot Inquiry insisted that they are independent of the government, but conceded that the inquiry allowed for material to be withheld if it “would damage international relations.”
Brown had previously shrugged off allegations of attempts to foil the inquiry, insisting that Sir John Chilcot had full freedom to do whatever he wanted in the context of the inquiry. During the election David Cameron (the current prime minister) slammed the Brown government for turning the inquiry into “an establishment stitch-up.”
The inquiry was meant to examine the decision-making process that led to the Blair government joining America’s invasion of Iraq. Since the inquiry would almost certainly have to center around Blair and President Bush conspiring to lie the public into war, this was a serious concern for US officials.
Beginning to draw some higher up Brit blood
I wonder how this will play in the British press? Will they ignore it and continue to act like Washington's little lapdog or will they get outraged?
the brit press is not as bum kissy as the US press
Perfidious Albion
It is pathetic to be so boot licking to a bankrupt nation playing world masters. Happily the UK has all along been playing the tunes of fiscal irresponsibility in the same way as the US.
Wiki leaks shows us that things were even worse than we thought. Can you imagine a labuor party leading people into a fascist war. We cry for Brittania,
One failed empire and one failing empire going down together. Couldn't happen to a better set of crooks.
Thick as thieves! How disgusting Governments are. They all play the ends against the middle. We, the citizens of the world, are being taken to the dry-cleaners. We are being ignored by the politicians and the corporations, treated as though we didn't exist.
It's time we reclaimed our planet from the Philistines who are destroying it. And us!
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Nothing much in any of the leaks from ,or to Austalia! just go's to show that eveybody knows that we will do anything and everything the US govt. wants us to do. Pathetic isn't it.