WikiLeaks Cable Reveals Secret Pledge to Protect US at Iraq Inquiry

[Hissyspit]

Source: Guardian UK

WikiLeaks cable reveals secret pledge to protect US at Iraq inquiry

Ministry of Defence told US that UK had 'put measures in place' to protect American interests during Chilcot inquiry

Robert Booth
The Guardian, Tue 30 Nov 2010 21.12 GMT

The British government promised to protect America's interests during the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, according to a secret cable sent from the US embassy in London.

Jon Day, the Ministry of Defence's director general for security policy, told US under-secretary of state Ellen Tauscher that the UK had "put measures in place to protect your interests during the UK inquiry into the causes of the Iraq war".

The admission came in the cable sent on 22 September 2009, which recorded a series of high-level meetings between Tauscher and UK defence officials and diplomats, which involved the then foreign secretary, David Miliband.

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The revelation of the move to defend Washington threatens to undermine the inquiry, which was launched by Gordon Brown 'to identify lessons that can be learned from the Iraq conflict'. It is due to deliver its findings around the turn of the year.

Read more: http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/s0tfDwlrJnn3R-DQO91AOkg/view.m?id=15&gid=world/2010/nov/30/wikileaks-chilcot-iraq-war-inquiry&cat=world

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I suspect this surprises no one.

Government credibility has hit a new low, methinks.

[Hissyspit]

2. Hardly just "gossip," though.

[gateley]

6. Yeah, this one is pretty gobsmacking. nt

[Solly Mack]

3. LMAO

Imagine that...here doggie, here doggie.

[Roland99]

4. Good thing impeachment was off the table, eh?

[flyarm]

5. These SOB scum bags cover their own asses while they murdered and are murdering innocent human

beings, and no one , and no party and no one has the integrity or the fucking guts to charge the guilty of their Murdering crimes.

But these fuckers want to charge the messsenger..I hate all these MTF'ers who call themselves politicians. They are all nothing but rottenest of scum bags!

Not another dime will any party or Politician get from me, unless they support in every way the prosecution of every war criminal in this country and that includes Obama and anyone in his administration that supported these illegal wars of murder!!

[Proletariatprincess]

7. Well said!

Im with you on that....not one penny to any of them.

[drm604]

8. No, No, No,

It's all just gossip. :sarcasm:

It's all a CIA trick; a controlled release to make the U.S. look good. :sarcasm: