The MOD is using the weasel-spin about not commenting on leaks to avoid responding to this breaking story. David Miliband was present at a meeting with US officials, during which the head of security policy at the Ministry of Defence said the UK would protect American interests.
Dated September 22 2009, the cable refers to meetings in London between Ellen O'Kane, the US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, Mr Miliband, Jon Day, then MoD Director General for Security Policy and Foreign and Cabinet Office officials.
It states: "Day also promised that the UK had "put measures in place to protect your interests" during the UK inquiry into the causes of the Iraq war."
Mr Day told the Americans that while Iraq was no longer a "major issue" in the United States, it would become a "feeding frenzy" in the UK "when the inquiry takes off".
Gordon Brown announced the inquiry into the Iraq War in June 2009.
He promised it would have access to "the fullest range of information, including secret information."
But in January 2010, two months after the inquiry began, it's chairman Sir John Chilcot said he was "frustrated" certain documents had not been declassified, during questioning of Lord Goldsmith, who was Attorney General at the time of the invasion.
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