Reply #11: Like rats from a sinking ship! [View All]

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Tebbit is trying to pass the buck, same as the vast majority of government witnesses at the Hutton enquiry. Do these people all have signs on their desk that read "THE BUCK STOPS.............SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!"?

On a side note, here are some sleazy allegations about said civil servant. I think he's been hanging round these politicians too long personally.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1061661,00.html

The personal role of Sir Kevin Tebbit, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence, in an alleged cover-up of major fraud and corruption is exposed in letters seen by the Guardian. Sir Kevin, the MoD's top official, failed to follow up for two years allegations that the arms firm BAE Systems ran a slush fund designed to bribe Saudi officials.

The MoD delayed for the past month in releasing to the Guardian two letters from Sir Kevin disclosable under the open government access code. Sir Kevin is revealed in the correspondence to have:

· Tipped off the chairman of BAE, Sir Richard Evans, about the contents of a confidential SFO letter

· Failed to fulfil a promise to the SFO to notify them of the outcome of his "detailed investigations".

Sir Kevin prevented the MoD's fraud squad from investigating the case, and also withheld the SFO's warnings from the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon.