Exclusive: US blocks publication of Chilcot’s report on how Britain went to war with Iraq
Source: The Independent
Washington is playing the lead role in delaying the publication of the long-awaited report into how Britain went to war with Iraq, The Independent has learnt.
Although the Cabinet Office has been under fire for stalling the progress of the four-year Iraq Inquiry by Sir John Chilcot, senior diplomatic sources in the US and Whitehall indicated that it is 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 Washingtons orders, from being included in the report of an expensive and lengthy British inquiry.
... One high-placed diplomatic source said: The US are highly possessive when documents relate to the presence of the President or anyone close to him. Tony Blair is involved in a dialogue in many of these documents, and naturally someone else is at the other end the President. Therefore this is not Tony Blairs or the UK Governments property to disclose.
Read more: 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
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Comrade Grumpy
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(1,464 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)That's what lap dogs do.
frylock
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olddad56
(5,732 posts)Where is Snowden when we need him.
christx30
(6,241 posts)by several people on here. Not by me. I think he's great. And I hope he (or someone else) able to get his hands on the report and get it without the permission of the US/British governments.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)I would be highly skeptical of anyone disparaging Snowden here.