Tony Blair's Iraq meetings to remain secret after government veto

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

The government has vetoed an order by the independent freedom of information watchdog to release the minutes of cabinet meetings held immediately before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

The decision was announced on Tuesday by Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, the only minister to have access to papers of a previous administration, in this case Tony Blair's Labour government.

Grieve said he issued a certificate under the Freedom of Information Act vetoing disclosure after consulting former Labour ministers, his cabinet colleagues, and the leader of the opposition, Ed Miliband.

He described the case as "exceptional" and one where, in his view, the public interest demanded the papers should be kept secret. He says he took into account "serious potential prejudice to the maintenance of effective cabinet government".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jul/31/iraq-invasion-government-documents-secret

[Raster]

1. Read: complicit of war crimes and further proof of ginned up and false evidence against Iraq.

[canuckledragger]

2. My thoughts exactly

conniving, grifting war criminal that he is

[Raster]

4. There comes a time when even the good guys don't want the bad, ugly information out there...

...because of the damage it can do to all.

Take 9/11, for example.

[canuckledragger]

6. I'll probably get hammered for this one

(I've noticed a few on DU that jump down your throat if you dare to suggest 9/11 was an inside job)

...but I still believe that both Blair AND Cheney helped to orchestrated both big 'terrorist' events

2 events, high visibility lots of media coverage, etc. where:


- both governments just happened to be running military scenarios mimicking the exact events that took place? one to provide a reason for war, the other to keep people afraid & keep the war going.

http://thenewalexandrialibrary.com/londbomb.html

it's late..can't quite find a link for the 9/11 training exercises

I'll always be pretty suspicious of both events though. & never trust either man

[Raster]

7. Never. Trust. Either. Man.

Yes, DU does have it's "sentries."

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. On the subject of 7/7, that wasn't the government

It was an independent consultant running a paper-based exercise for a private firm - where the management have to figure out how they'd keep the company running when told that key members of staff are unable to get to work, businesses they trade with are unable to do some things, and so on. It didn't 'involve 1000 people' - the firm he did it for had 1000 employees, so those taking part in the exercise had to plan what they'd do with, potentially, 1000 people not at work, or stuck at work, and so on. And it was all done as a 'game' - he sets up the scenario, they tell him what they'd do, he tells them what happens next, they say what they'd do next, and so on.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Quite a co-incidence indeed.

[leveymg]

3. Churchill also buried the Cabinet notes leading up to the Declaration of WW2.

Seems there were some unspeakable worthies in high places who wanted to throw in Britain's lot with Hitler's Germany against Russia in 1939-40. Fortunately, they were outvoted.

2003. More unpublished, unpunished, unspeakable crimes against humanity.

[Solly Mack]

5. Craven.

[truebrit71]

10. Complete Fucking Bullshit!!