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BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE ITSELF FOR PHONEY WAR...
OOOOPS! BUSTED!
First plan, to hold hearings in secret and not to find blame causes public outcry!
LONDON A long-awaited and potentially explosive inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war and its aftermath, finally got underway in London yesterday.
When the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, announced the inquiry in June after months of growing political pressure, he declared that the hearings would be held in private and “would not apportion blame”.
In the outcry that followed, Mr Brown was forced into an embarrassing u-turn, conceding that most of the hearings would, in fact, be in public and would only be held in camera when national security was at stake.
Concerns remain, however, over how much the excuse of national security will be used to hold the inquiry’s hearings in private.
Sir Menzies Campbell, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats – the only one of the three main political parties to oppose the war – told the BBC that it was essential that the public were not “denied essential information”. He added: “It is important that national security should not be regarded as a synonym for government embarrassment.
