Duplicity, evasions - but no answers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1157359,00.html
It is time for an full, independent public inquiry into the case for
war
Peter Kilfoyle
Friday February 27, 2004
The Guardian
The revelations of Katharine Gun should not have come as too big a
surprise. After all, we have come to expect the worst of our security
services when they are guided by men and women of little principle.
Yet when we bug our allies to undermine them at the UN, we are
plumbing new depths.
When the powerful feel threatened, there is little they will not do to
protect their power. Thus, the downfall of Richard Nixon began with
his burglars sifting through Democrat files at Watergate. Was the
request by Frank Koza of the United States National Security Agency to
GCHQ for illegal help qualitatively any different? When Peter Wright's
book Spycatcher suggested an intelligence plot to oust Harold Wilson,
many of us were not surprised either.
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