Straw Implicated in the Naming of Kelly

[LeighAnn]

Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, was implicated for the first time yesterday in the naming of David Kelly in documents freshly released by the Hutton inquiry.

The documents also show Mr Straw playing a part in the "sexing up" of the September Iraq arms dossier, urging the strengthening of references to weapons of mass destruction and demanding a "killer paragraph". But it is the revelations about his department's role in the disclosure of Dr Kelly's identity which is potentially the most damaging for Mr Straw, who has so far been relatively untainted by the controversy surrounding the scientist's death.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=441672

[roguevalley]

1. well, this is interesting. now Blair

might have to get a new man to sell his lies. I think this man has the most appropriate name of all of the scumbags that are implicated on both sides of the Atlantic in this mess.

Bye, Jack. Take out the trash when you leave. We'll get the silver trail later.

[aneerkoinos]

2. Nope.

It's jail for the whole lot, Blair, Straw and Hoon, for treason and war crimes.

[lanlady]

3. They're all implicated

It hardly matters if Jack wrote 2 sentences and Tony only one. Blair's entire government is unworthy of trust.

[AP]

4. Straw is the worst man in that government. I do not like him.

He is an awful man whose presense in the Labour government is the equivalent of David Gergen/Dick Morris in Clinton's government and Leon Panetta in Bush's. He's the guy who makes the conservatives think their voices are represented in the cabinet.

[IndianaGreen]

5. He can join Geoff Hoon and resign

I cannot imagine this scandal not bringing Blair down. This is the American equivalent of having Rumsfeld and Powell being ID'ed as the ones that revealed that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife was working covertly for the CIA.

Who exposed whistleblower's wife?

Julian Borger, Washington
Saturday August 9, 2003
The Guardian

A week after Mr Wilson went public, a conservative journalist, Bob Novak, published an article in which he wrote: "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate."

The report was controversial because it is against the law to reveal the identities of covert officials. If Ms Plame was investigating WMD deals, her cover would have been blown and her career ruined. Mr Wilson will not confirm or deny whether his wife is a CIA operative, but said yesterday: "Assuming it was true, the real victim in all this is American national security. Novak asserted that not only is my wife in the CIA but active in the WMD section. So senior administration officials have decided to take that particular asset out of the search for WMD in order to punish me."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1015160,00.html

[KoKo]

6. Does anyone know why these e-mails weren't held back as PM Priviledge or

destroyed. Here in the US Cheney won't even release his meeting with his energy buddies, Bush won't release anything from him Governor of Texas records and it's incredible that the Hutton report got access to all these records.

How was it so different in GB......is Tony Blair more open or more respectful of his people than Bush...or is the legal system stronger?

[0007]

7. The snakes & the cockroaches rule

Our system is an illegal custer fuck.