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So how did Jack Straw go from lefty student to foreign secretary during a war? The Iraq Inquiry Blogger takes a deeper look.
In his explosive evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, former security and intelligence coordinator Sir David Omand fingers MI6 for failing to correctly interpret intelligence over weapons of mass destruction.
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks ahead to the witnesses scheduled to appear in week seven of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.
The Iraq Inquiry blogger reports on the evidence given by former Cabinet Secretary Lord Turnbull.
So there we are – the end of a pretty self-assured performance from Alastair Campbell, hardly surprising perhaps for a man accustomed to presenting an entire government. When we got to the final break of the day and Campbell nonchalantly asked the panel what they’d like to ask him about next – “What’s to go?” –…
Alastair Campbell, speaking to the Iraq Inquiry, called the publication of the second intelligence dossier, dubbed the “dodgy dossier” in February 2003 a “mistake”.
Finally for today a few suggestions of our own. Evidence begins at 10h00 – Gary Gibbon will be inside the Inquiry room for the main bulletin and we’ll be Live Tweeting from the press-room next door throughout.
Alastair Campbell could be forgiven for having a touch of déjà vu when he wakes up tomorrow morning. As No. 10’s director of communications and strategy between the key years of 2001-2003 he was close to the heart – some claim too close – of the decision-making process in the run-up to the Iraq War, and the subsequent years and repeated inquiries haven’t let him forget that.
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks back at what had been learned from “phase 1” of the Chilcot inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war.
As Sir John Chilcot continues his inquiry into the Iraq conflict, Channel 4 News discovers pro-war voices are becoming hard to find.
Gary Gibbon
Just interviewed MP Adam Holloway whose pamphlet on Iraq prompted the front page of the Daily Mail this morning: “Was Iraqi cabbie source of dodgy dossier?” The paper claims that an Iraqi taxi driver “…provided the information that Saddam Hussein could fire weapons at British targets within 45 minutes.” But Adam Holloway both in his…
An interesting start to today’s session when journos and bloggers in the press room were told that a date given by one of last week’s witnesses – Sir William Ehrman – was wrong and had now been corrected in the transcript. Conspiracy theorists are already at work. Who is “fiddling”, asks one of this site’s…
Not many people get to sit in on private meetings between presidents and prime ministers in the Oval Office of the White House. Today the Iraq inquiry hears from one who did. Sir David Manning was security adviser to Tony Blair in the run up to the Iraq war. And it was no ordinary meeting…
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger examines the newspaper reaction to the first week of the Inquiry.
Iraq war inquiry: a look back at week one of Sir John Chilcot’s investigation into the events which led to the conflict, through the eyes and ears of the Channel 4 News Iraq inquiry blogger.