From Times Online:Gordon Brown faced accusations of a fix and an “Establishment stitch-up” yesterday after ruling that the long-awaited Iraq war inquiry would be in secret and not report until after the general election.
The Prime Minister came under attack from MPs on all sides, as well as from families of troops killed in the conflict, after insisting that hearings could not be held in public for reasons of national security.
He also surprised MPs by saying that the inquiry, by a committee of privy counsellors headed by a former Whitehall mandarin, would not seek to apportion blame. Critics said that the committee did not have enough military or political experience.
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My Comment: This inquiry is so symbolic of this U.K. government. Everything is done in secret. No one is to blame. The final report will be critical, but it will be released years from now, and no one will be held accountable.
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