Gary Gibbon
Chilcot inquiry does not ‘ambush witnesses’ on Iraq
You don’t need to look long at Sir John Chilcot’s end of session statement today to think that there are some hurt feelings around.
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Iraq Inquiry: Blair evidence ticket draw
The Iraq Inquiry Blogger reveals details of the ballot for those who want to be in the chamber when Tony Blair gives evidence to Sir John Chilcot.
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Iraq inquiry: it's good to be back
Channel 4 News’s Iraq inquiry blogger looks back over coverage of the inquuiry during the Christmas break and ahead to evidence this week and later in the year.
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Iraq inquiry: Chilcot on the defensive as panel breaks for Christmas
Sir John Chilcot goes on the defensive at the Iraq war inquiry, writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger for Channel 4 News.
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Gary Gibbon
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Iraq inquiry: the first national security 'blackout'
Iraq inquiry: the midday “blackout” was the day’s big talking point writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger for Channel 4 News.
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Iraq Inquiry: newspaper reaction
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger examines the newspaper reaction to the first week of the Inquiry.
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Iraq inquiry: week one's report card
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.
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Iraq inquiry: gremlins, Vulcans and Glinner
Iraq war inquiry day three throws up a few gremlins and evidence that Bush and Blair may have agreed on the invasion at private talks in Texas 11 months before the war began, writes the Iraq Inquiry blogger for Channel 4 News.
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Iraq inquiry: press reaction
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry Blogger looks at the press reactin to the first day at the Iraq Inquiry.
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Gary Gibbon
The Iraq inquiry is light on documents. Here’s why
Most of the damage done to the government in the Hutton inquiry came from the documents, memos, emails, draft diaries, government papers, that poured out every day.
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Gary Gibbon
Iraq inquiry light on documents
Channel 4 News Political correspondent Gary Gibbon says the Iraq Inquiry so far has not unearthed as many documents as the Hutton Inquiry did.
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Iraq inquiry: debating 'the story' over lunch
Lunch break at the inquiry and the Fourth Estate gather to discuss what “The Story” currently looks like being. Several journalists say they’re going with the internal Foreign Office “options paper” that Sir William Patey mentioned this morning. Although the former head of the Middle East department made clear that regime change was just one…
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Iraq inquiry: how it will operate
Some quick background on how the inquiry’s going to operate. The five-strong committee led by Sir John Chilcot was appointed by the Prime Minister this summer after the announcement that British military operations in Iraq had effectively ended finished. Despite being selected by the government, Sir John has vowed that the committee will be fair,…
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Iraq inquiry: as it starts, what can we expect?
For a war that seared onto our TV screens via the US military doctrine of “shock and awe” the UK’s official inquiry into the Iraq conflict just started with a distinctly English sang froid. First things first – another inquiry? You could be forgiven a tinge of déjà vu, but the two best-known investigations that…
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Gary Gibbon
Waiting, in a tiny room, for the Iraq inquiry
Unlike the Hutton inquiry when documents poured out of government every day the opening taster at the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war is discouraging.