Exclusive: US blocks publication of Chilcot’s report on how Britain went to war with Iraq

[eridani]

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

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 Washington’s orders, from being included in the report of an expensive and lengthy British inquiry.

Earlier this year, The Independent revealed that early drafts of the report challenged the official version of events leading up to the Iraq war, which saw Mr Blair send in 45,000 troops to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime.

[90-percent]

1. Gee

Do you think Blair and GW Bush would be a little embarrassed when the world receives (yet more) irrefutable proof that the basis for the Iraq Invasion was based on fabrications they themselves created and knew were false?

-90% Jimmy

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I expect the report will be online in a matter of days

if not hours, since it is a perfect temptation to Anonymous and/or Wikileaks.

[eridani]

3. Enabling those of us who follow this stuff to know what is going on--

--and leaving the general public in the dark.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Those who do not access their news via puter

will eventually hear of it the same way they have with all the previous spy stories,
on tv when it gets too big to hide, probably.

[avaistheone1]

5. k&r