Sunday, 07 August 2011 09:35
'Whenever there is a public clamour over an issue, be it the decision to go to war, the Murdoch scandal or UK complicity in the torture of terror suspects, there is an anguished call for an inquiry to shed light on the circumstances and to name and shame those responsible. Whenever the government feels under pressure from public and media anger, their knee-jerk response is to do just that and set an inquiry up. Only the two sides are looking for entirely different results.
For a prime minister, be it over Iraq, Murdoch or torture, the whole object is to use an inquiry to kick the issue into the long grass while the anger burns itself out. The last thing a government wants is a final report that raises the temperature again by naming culprits and apportioning blame. Yet that is the primary objective of those seeking the truth about war, riots, corruption or illegality.'
Sunday, 07 August 2011 09:32
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