Belfast Telegraph - James Cusick, 11/14/13
US objection to release of key evidence may prevent conclusions of the Iraq Inquiry by Sir John Chilcot from ever being published, except in heavily redacted form
Although Britain's Cabinet Office has been under fire for stalling the progress of the four-year Iraq Inquiry by Sir John Chilcot, senior diplomatic sources in the US and Whitehall indicated that it is officials in the White House and the US Department of State who have refused to sanction any declassification of critical pre- and post-war communications between George W Bush and Tony Blair.
Without permission from the US government, David Cameron faces the politically embarrassing situation of having to block evidence, on Washington’s orders, from being included in the report of an expensive and lengthy British inquiry.
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