Headline: UK press cries 'whitewash' over Blair escape -- Detail Story

[wroberts189]

Nice compilation of British press reaction..from Pakistan

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Headline: UK press cries 'whitewash' over Blair escape -- Detail Story

http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en52499&F_catID=&f_type=source



"In a striking front-page article, with a white space left where normally a photograph would appear, the Indepenedent asked if the Hutton report was an "establishment whitewash". "

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KABLAMMOOOO!!!!

The piper is coming for payment.

http://news.google.com/news?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Hutton+whitewash&sa=N&tab=wn

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No date on article so posting here... please correct me if Im wrong.

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Here is one more from Greg Palast

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=311&row=0

[NJCher]

1. thanks for bringing us these links

This isn't going away, Mr. Blair. You can whitewash all you want but you've needlessly murdered thousands in your folly and you will pay for it.


Cher

[pink_poodle]

2. But when do the lying liars pay along with him? -nm

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[Jack Rabbit]

3. Some more discussions in this forum

Jonathan Freedland (Guardian Utd): If it went to the West End they'd call it Whitewash

Seumas Milne (Guardian Utd): The shadow of Iraq

Scott Ritter: Look to what is missing from the Hutton report (also posted from the Guardian)

Krugman: Where's the Apology? (posted from The New York Times. The emphasis here is on the issues on this side of the Pond, but they mirror those surrounding the Hutton Report and are just as much an attempt to Whitewash official lies by using "bad intelligence" as a false alibi)

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. 'There but for the grace of God go all of us'

Editorial by Jon Snow (anchor for Channel 4 News over here)


I have rarely felt worse emerging from the studio after a programme than I did on Wednesday night. I felt utterly conflicted. Relieved to have put out a good and coherent account of Hutton's deed, I felt no sense of elation in the competitor BBC's dark hour.

Like anyone else with any journalistic profile, in recent months people I knew, but never knew to have been in the secret intelligence service, or defence intelligence service, have made discreet contact and talked. They have spoken with alarming candour about their concerns over the interface between the politicians, the intelligence services, and the grounds for going to war. What they told me tended to substantiate and develop what we heard in testimony at the Hutton inquiry.

A few months ago, London's Tricycle Theatre staged several hours of testimony from Hutton. It was a beautifully balanced piece, the starring roles were those of Dingemans, the inquiry counsel, and Hutton himself. The judge's brief but incisive questions lent a wonderful sense of reassurance to the proceedings. The debate after the show revealed the audience had found the evidence reflected badly on almost everyone under scrutiny. The one hero of the two-and-a-half-hour play was the "Hutton process" itself.

Never before in British public life had so much been laid bare. The email traffic, the verbal testimony of men normally shielded from public view, and the vulnerability of ministers and journalists alike; it was indeed a liberating period. Somehow we felt the conduct of both journalism and government would never be quite the same again. Not any more we don't. Hutton's inquiry and his report do not seem to share the same genesis. How was it we missed the scale of the evidence that vindicated Blair, Hoon, Campbell and the rest of the government and intelligence process? How did we miss the sheer scale of the BBC's criminality that necessitated a stake being driven through its managerial heart? We must be thankful to Brian Hutton for enabling the blind to see, and the lame walk.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1134953,00.html