Sir John Chilcot has argued that details of their private chats around the campfire at the President's Texas ranch in 2003 have been published in a host of memoirs including Blair's own A Journey, but he has been blocked from using them by former Cabinet Secretary Lord O'Donnell.
O'Donnell told Chilcot that releasing Blair's notes would damage Britain's relations with the US and would not be in the public interest, according to Richard Norton Taylor in The Guardian. "We have attached particular importance to protecting the privacy of the channel between the prime minister and president," he said.
Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/48000/chilcot-row-could-scupper-tony-blairs-return-centre-stage#ixzz21RFDh0Wp
O my poor Kingdom, Sick with civil blows Peopled with WOLVES, Thy old inhabitants...
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