United Kingdom - Iraq Inquiry told to "protect US interests"
United Kingdom - Iraq Inquiry told to "protect US interests" Alex Plough, 30 November 2010, 17.07 GMT The Ministry of Defence decided to influence the official inquiry into the Iraq War in order to "protect US interests", according to a classified US diplomatic cable released by whistleblower website Wikileaks. A dispatch sent by Ellen Tauscher, the US Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, describes a conversation with Jon Day, the MOD Director General for security policy, in which he "promised that the UK had ’put measures in place to protect your [US] interests’ during the UK inquiry into the causes of the Iraq War. Day made the admission in late September 2009, during one of a series of meetings between Tauscher and senior British officials attending the London P5 Conference on Confidence Building Measures Towards Nuclear Disarmament. The UK delegation also included David Miliband, then Foreign Secretary, although...