How Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war

[Quixote1818]

So in the post I just made I was speculating about this. Then low and behold I found this:



How Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war


Tony Blair had three conversations with the media magnate Rupert Murdoch in the nine days before the start of the Iraq war, the Government has disclosed.


Details of the former prime minister's contacts with Mr Murdoch have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. After trying to block disclosure for four years, the Government backed down in a surprise change of heart the day after Mr Blair resigned last month.

Requests for information under the Act were submitted by the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Avebury and The Independent journalist James Macintyre. An appeal was pending and evidence was about to be served in a case before an Information Tribunal.

Continued:


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/how-murdoch-had-a-hotline-to-the-pm-in-the-runup-to-iraq-war-457825.html

[daggahead]

1. I hope this whole thing blows up soon, and there are

many famous neo-cons that will be exposed as conspirators in the Irag war, the crimes they committed and how Fox News had their balls in a jar in the "brain room."

[gratuitous]

2. Records released the day after Blair resigned

I wonder if Tony will favor us with his story about this?

[malaise]

3. K & R

for truth