Friday, April 15, 2022

The Public Transcripts 16 Jack Straw says that while the wider issues were discussed you cant just go around trusting the Cabinet with information.

 Jack Straw says that while the wider issues were discussed you cant just go around trusting the Cabinet with information.  There are 27 or 28 of them.  Far too many.  Just him, Geoff Hoon, Jack Straw, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell and erm...?




The Public Transcripts 16 - Lieutenant General Sir Richard Shirreff complains about the lack of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ...

 Lieutenant General Sir Richard Shirreff complains about the lack of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ...



The Public Transcripts 15 Alastair Campbell blames the French...

 Alastair Campbell blames the French...



The Public Transcripts 14 Alastair Campbell says with no irony that you can't just choose the leadership of another country...

Alastair Campbell says with no irony that you can't just choose the leadership of another country...




The Public Transcripts 13 Lord Turnbull Cabinet Secretary, 2002 – 2005

Lord Turnbull Cabinet Secretary, 2002 – 2005 described the generation of the Iraq War dossier as process of "granny's footsteps".



The Public Transcripts 12 General Sir John Reith Chief Joint Operations Aug 2001-Jul 2004

General Sir John Reith Chief Joint Operations Aug 2001-Jul 2004 speaks in private about playing on a field where the goalposts are moving ... and the field as well.







The Public Transcripts 11 Vice Admiral Charles Style...

Vice Admiral Charles Style talks about exactly how many military operations the British Armed Forces are designed to undertake and sustain at any one time and how running the Afghanistan and Iraq operations in parallel caused some resourcing issues.






The Private Transcripts MI6 - SIS2 Part 2 - Alastair Campbell the “unguided missile”

  More redaction before Sir Lawrence Freedman asserts that after UNSCOM withdrew from Iraq in the late 90s MI6 lost most of its sources.. . ...