US tries to Censor British Report on Secret Bush-Blair Push for Iraq War (Lazare)

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http://www.juancole.com/2013/11/british-report-lazare.html

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US tries to Censor British Report on Secret Bush-Blair Push for Iraq War (Lazare)
Posted on 11/17/2013
by Juan Cole

If the U.S. gets its way, the world will never know the details of top-level discussions between George W. Bush and Tony Blair that paved the way for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

An exclusive report released Thursday by The Independent reveals that the White House and U.S. State Department have launched a fierce battle against the release of a four-year government-ordered investigation into the lead-up and aftermath of British participation in a war now widely viewed in the UK as a catastrophe.

The inquiry, led by Sir John Chilcot, is believed to take aim at the official version of events, including misrepresentation of Iraq intelligence, as well as questions about whether former British Prime Minister Tony Blair engaged in secret negotiations with the Bush administration while lying to the British people.

Yet, the U.S. government is forbidding the release of communications between Blair and Bush in the lead-up to the war, declaring it classified information and pressuring British Prime Minister David Cameron to wipe this information from the report.

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1. This sounds like a job for Wikileaks. nt