Tuesday, 22 May 2012 06:12 'The UK Foreign Office lost an appeal against an order by the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, to release extracts of a phone conversation between the two leaders, who have been accused of distorting comments by former French president Jacques Chirac in order to trash efforts to get a second UN resolution on the proposed invasion of Iraq. Read more: UK Government Ordered to Disclose Blair, Bush's Pre-Iraq Chat
“Accountability for the decision to take military action against another country is paramount," said Graham in his original order, which was made in response to a freedom of information request by Stephen Plowden, a private individual who demanded disclosure of the entire record of the conversation occurred a week before the illegal war.'
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
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