Gordon Brown urged to lift Iraq inquiry secrecy

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Source: The Guardian

Fears most explosive documents related to beginning of war will not be aired at Chilcot hearing

Gordon Brown is facing demands to change the rules of the Iraq inquiry this weekend amid fears that the most explosive documents explaining why Britain went to war will not be made public.

As the inquiry enters its second week, the prime minister is under pressure to make key evidence relating to secret government discussions public, including minutes showing how the then attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, changed his mind about the legality of the war.

The demands are made in a letter to Brown from the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, who insists that unless the lid is lifted on secrecy, the Chilcot inquiry will fail to satisfy the public's demands for honesty.

Last night the Mail on Sunday claimed Goldsmith wrote to Blair in July 2002, eight months before the war, telling him that deposing Saddam Hussein was a blatant breach of international law. The intention was to make Blair call off the invasion but he ignored the advice, the newspaper says, and banned Goldsmith from attending cabinet meetings. The letter has been handed to the inquiry and both men are expected to be questioned about it in the new year.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/29/iraq-inquiry-secrecy-brown-manning

[LeftishBrit]

1. k& big R for a teeny chance of some honesty for a change!

[midnight]

2. Good! There has been to much secrecy in these important matters.

[Pharaoh]

3. F U Tony!

:party:

[MetaTrope]

4. Blair will undoubtedly find that Cheney's selective memory loss was contagious

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[ooglymoogly]

6. The saddest thing is, that with all their secrecy

They (the English) are a damn sight further, ferreting out the truth, than the gubment criminals on this side of the pond and what they are desperately trying to cover up, which is far, far worse and closer to the unspeakable.

[ooglymoogly]

7. Looks like folks are trying to find out where poodle

crapped.