Blix: Straw 'gave incorrect answers' to Iraq inquiry
Mr Blix said it was "amazing" Mr Straw was convinced by the cluster report
8 February 2010
Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw gave some incorrect answers to the UK's Iraq war inquiry, former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has said.
Mr Blix told the BBC he was "puzzled" by some of the evidence that Mr Straw gave to the panel.
He said that Mr Straw had been incorrect to suggest, in 2002, that UN weapons inspectors were not being allowed access to certain sites. >>>>>
Iraq war was illegal, says former lord chief justice
But, says Lord Bingham, any legal redress is unlikely
Lord Bingham: 'The Chilcot process is turning out to be a washing of not very wholesome linen in public.' Photograph: David Levene
8 February 2010
The Guardian once described Lord "call me Tom" Bingham as "the radical who is leading a new English revolution". That would not necessarily be your impression on meeting the gentlemanly, old-school 76-year-old who, when I arrive at his tall-ceilinged, book-lined, art-filled mansion flat in Notting Hill, west London, immediately makes me coffee, served in a silver pot. If this is revolution, it will not be instant. >>>>>
Tony Blair attacks Iraq Inquiry as part of Britain's 'obsession with conspiracy theories'
09 February 2010
Tony Blair yesterday launched an extraordinary attack on the Iraq inquiry - as the chairman warned that he and others could be recalled over 'gaps' in their evidence.
In an outspoken interview in the U.S., the former prime minister dismissed the inquiry as part of a ' continual desire to sort of uncover some great conspiracy'.
Speaking on Fox News he said critics of the war were obsessed with conspiracy theories, and refused to accept that his motives were 'genuine' >>>>>
Jack Straw has hit back at claims he ignored legal advice that the Iraq war was unlawful.
08 February 2010
Mr Straw said he had given "serious attention" to warnings the conflict would be a "crime of aggression" if it did not have the backing of a second UN Security Council resolution. >>>>>
Thousands of Secret Documents Are 'Core' of U.K. Iraq Inquiry
09 February 2010
Tens of thousands of secret documents form the core of the ongoing inquiry into the Iraq war, its chairman revealed on Monday—far more than previously thought.
The inquiry also hinted that such documents showed British officials knew George Bush intended to invade Iraq even if they complied with the U.N. weapons inspections.
In a statement marking the end of a month of public testimonies by senior decision-makers broadcast live on the Web, inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcott said that secret documents allowed the panel to see what really went on. >>>>>
Tony's Britches Falling Down
12 February 2010
Tony Blair's political days are looking, more and more, to be numbered. The once sure bet as the first president of Europe, who was blackballed from that post by a powerful faction within the British Establishment itself, is coming under well-deserved attack, on a wide number of fronts, from his central role in lying the United Kingdom and the United States into the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq; to his lavish lifestyle-zero accomplishment track record as peace envoy for the Mideast Quartet; to his efforts to draw the United Kingdom into the now-sinking European Monetary Union; and his fantasy vision of bridging the gap between the Anglican and Catholic churches and forging a united oligarchical European entity.
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On Feb. 8, Blair took the unusual step of appearing live, on Rupert Murdoch's Fox-TV News, to launch a tirade against the Chilcot Commission, the British mandarin-led inquiry into the causes of the Iraq War. Blair had testified before the Commission Jan. 29, attempting to bully his way through the six-hour interrogation, by repeatedly calling for the Anglo-Americans to "do it again" to Iran. >>>>>
Triggers for further inquiries by Chilcot
11 February 2010
Jack Straw was recalled to the Chilcot inquiry to clarify his position over the legal advice on the Iraq war (Cabinet did not need to hear legal doubts, 9 February). The US and UK were the co-sponsors of UN resolution 1441. At the time of it was adopted the US ambassador, John Negroponte, assured the world that: "This resolution contains no 'hidden triggers' and no 'automaticity' with respect to the use of force. If there is a further Iraqi breach ... the matter will return to the [security] council for discussions as required in paragraph 12."
The British ambassador said: "We heard loud and clear ... the concern that on a decision so crucial we should not rush into military action; that on a decis >>>>>
The torture memos show how illegal wars turn even the nicest people bad
11 February 2010
The deceit, the slaughter, the atrocity, the abuse of human rights. Today, Hannah Arendt's banality of evil is everywhere
Something is wrong. A sensible, clean-living chap such as David Miliband wants nothing more sinister than to lead the Labour party, yet he finds himself consorting with spies, lawyers, rendition merchants and torturers. His only experience of coercion was waterboarding British school teachers with targets and red tape. Now he must defend the interrogators of Guantánamo and explain away the bloodstained cells of Pakistan and Morocco.
Whatever plaudits were due to Foreign Office lawyers during the Chilcot inquiry have been expunged by this week's revelation of their antics in trying to conceal details of post-9/11 torture by British agents. The security services were clearly implicated in the brutal questioning of the Guantánamo inmate, Binyam Mohamed – treatment so bad as to render his trial unsafe and force his release. >>>>>
I'll close out this post now, more to come.
And in the sidebar to the right you'll find the links that give pretty much everything from the start of the Inquiry to the present as it continues.
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