2007/03/26
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Is Straw the man?
by
Chris Ames
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posted at
2007-03-26 12:17
last modified
2007-11-08 22:45
Given what I have found out about the dossier and what is soon to come out, I am astonished that Gordon Brown has appointed Jack Straw to head his leadership campaign.
It was Straw's press officer John Williams who, with Straw's agreement, wrote the first full draft of the dossier. It was Straw's Foreign Office that withheld the draft from the Hutton Inquiry. It was Straw who personally blocked my request to see the Williams draft. And Straw directly misled the Foreign Affairs Committee when he repeatedly insisted that the 45 minutes claim was in the dossier "in the first draft after the intelligence was received".
As I have shown, this was untrue.
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- The cover-up