Reply #8: Blair-Bush notes will remain secret [View All]

[Turborama]

Source: Press Association Via The Guardian

The head of the civil service has refused to allow the official inquiry into the Iraq War to publish notes sent by Tony Blair to former US president George Bush.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell denied requests for exchanges between the former prime minister and Mr Bush about Iraq to be declassified and released.

Inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot said: "The inquiry is disappointed that the Cabinet Secretary was not willing to accede to its request. This means that in a narrow but important area the inquiry may not always be able to publish as fully as it would wish the evidential basis for some of its comments and conclusions."

Sir John wrote to Sir Gus last month asking him to authorise the declassification of extracts from notes sent by Mr Blair to Mr Bush and records of discussions between the two leaders.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9457465

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So, the Tories are protecting Tony and George? What a surprise.

I am surprised to hear that copies of these notes still exist in the UK, though. Are there copies at the other end still? Oh yeah, and what happened to all those thousands of emails that went missing early 2009?