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The Independent (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Forget the clichés: whitewashes, establishment cover-ups et al. Sir John Chilcot is the right man to head the inquiry which opens for business this week. He has a lucid, forensic intelligence. He knows how government works. He also knows that this will be his momentum aere perennius; this is how he will be remembered. So he will want to produce a report that wins the respect of his peers: has...
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EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The Daily Mail is running the " Climategate " story this morning – the first paper to give it a halfway decent airing. Furthermore, the piece is accompanied by robust editorial which wonders whether "the pernicious culture of spin and deception which ruined our belief in politicians has now infected the world of science." Researchers at one of the world's leading climate change...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
By public demand Gordon Brown's early efforts to keep the inquiry into the Iraq war secret were defeated by the chairman himself Sir John Chilcott , former father confessor to the intelligence community and NIO chief. In that role, he had probably the most extensive knowledge of anyone of MI5's role in the province and throughout the UK. I can feel hackles rising already at the sight of his pedigree...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
FORMER BRITISH prime minister Tony Blair’s repeated declarations that the planning for an Iraq invasion did not begin until 2003 have been cast into doubt on the eve of the opening of an official British inquiry into the war.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The former Whitehall mandarin heading the long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war has said his team will not shrink from criticising Tony Blair and other senior government figures if they are found to be at fault.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
IN 2006, former British prime minister Tony Blair urged Venezuela to abide by the "rules" of the international community.
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Not a sheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shocking news revealed by The Telegraph , allegedly ( my emphasis ): "On the eve of the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, The Sunday Telegraph has obtained hundreds of pages of secret Government reports on “lessons learnt” which shed new light on “significant shortcomings” at all levels. They include full transcripts...
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Tony Blair covered up British military plans for a full Iraq invasion throughout 2002, claiming at the time that Britain's objective was "disarmament, not regime change." This and many other damning details are revealed in hundreds of pages of secret government reports obtained by The Sunday Telegraph. Full transcripts include classified interviews with frustrated British [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Tony Blair will not seek another big international job after being rejected for the new post of "President of Europe", his allies said yesterday.
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Tony Blair has shrugged off his failure to become EU president, insisting he did not want the job.
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BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
...because we never do anything wrong: Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair's government's attempts to mislead the public. They were so shocked by the lack of preparation for the aftermath of the invasion that they believe members of the British and US governments...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the ...
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CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
by David Stringer LONDON - Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported Sunday. Britain's Sunday Telegraph published details of private statements made by senior British military figures claiming plans...
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Boggartblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This weekend we are having a bit of a booze up in the Boggart Blog office as we celebrate another political success for our campaigning journalism. Our reporting of the stitch up being prepared to push Tony Blair into the post of EU President stopped the Blair bandwagon in its tracks. The man now appointed President (no elections for anything that matters in the democratic European Union) is Herman...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war, a newspaper reports.
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natwhokares | 30/10/2009
http://whokares.net/2009/10/at-the-end-a-justice-for-everyone-chirac-in-trial/ What should happened, happened at the end. In France, the president can’t be sued it’s in the Constitution, De Gaulle choice. The thing is when a French president is not in function anymore he comes back a citizen like the others. That’s why he’ll go in court soon. It’s the first time in France during the Ve Republic, a...
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