http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org Everything about the Chilcot Inquiry in one place Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:16:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Brian Jones This is the lecture that I gave at the Royal United Services Institute yesterday to launch my book Failing Intelligence: How Blair led us into war in Iraq. In the year or so following my retirement in early 2003, I gave evidence on intelligence and WMD to two of ... http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9379 by Chris Ames The papers have of course been through Tony Blair's memoirs. On Chilcot and Iraq, I find the Telegraph's brief account most revealing: Mr Blair says he was angry at being asked when giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry led by Lord Chilcot earlier this year if he regretted anything. ... http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9373 By Brian Jones Digesters may be interested to know that Dialogue have just published my book, FAILING INTELLIGENCE: The true story of how we were fooled into going to war in Iraq. It is available online and should be in the book shops this week. It got a mention in this ... http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9366 by Chris Ames NGO Iraq Body Count (IBC) has slammed the Inquiry for paying insufficient attention to Iraqi casualties and focusing on the British side of the story: "Earlier official Inquiries into the war have been criticised for having too narrow a remit. In contrast, the Chilcot Inquiry has evidently been ... http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9362 Iraq Inquiry press release The Iraq Inquiry invites veterans to a meeting with the Committee 11 August 2010 Sir John Chilcot has written to UK military personnel who served in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 inviting them to attend an event at Tidworth Garrison on 14 September. The open letter has been circulated ... http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9313 by Chris Ames I've just posted this piece on the Index on Censorship website: "The Iraq inquiry’s public hearings ended last week, possibly for good. It is clear that Sir John Chilcot and co know the truth but, stuck in a quagmire of their own making, are unable to tell it. " Read ... http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9309 Today's Guardian carries a letter from Louis Blom-Cooper QC arguing that the Inquiry needs to look very closely at both the process by which the attorney general came to state that the war would be legal and the validity of that decision. I'm reproducing it here in full: Jonathan Steele tells ... http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9304 by Chris Ames Readers may know that Digest contributor Ken Coates, who was Chairman of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, died suddenly at the end of June. Tony Simpson has send me a pdf version of Ken's last editorial for the Spokesman journal, which, inter alia, mentions my earlier coverage of ... http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9301 On Comment is Free, Jonathan Steele says that "by taking evidence only from insiders, the Chilcot report will produce not the needed insight but fudge." http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9297 by Chris Ames It is very much worth looking at the transcript of John Prescott's appearance on Friday, as well as the headlines. This section is revealing but also shows what is wrong with the Inquiry: BARONESS PRASHAR: Apart from the videolink conversation did you actually see any of the Prime Minister's ... http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?p=9286