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Fears Of ‘Whitewash’ As National Security Team Prepares To Vet Chilcot’s Iraq War Report
Accusation of “whitewash” have met the news that next week British spies will start vetting and editing Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry report.
A team of national security officials taken from the security services is set up and ready to go to the offices of the Iraq Inquiry, having already met with John Penrose — the Tory minister in charge of the Government’s response to the report.
Their job will be to vet Sir John’s final report pre-publication, removing sections important to national security. A source told The Telegraph:
“It is not deleting or redacting anything that is embarrassing it is just taking out or checking that anything genuinely secret is not left in.
“It is his [Sir John Chilcot’s] report – all we get to do is to check that he is not inadvertently and unintentionally revealing national secrets.”
The Iraq Inquiry officially began taking evidence in 2009, finishing the process of taking its main evidence in February 2011. Mr. Penrose said this security vetting stage will “take no more than two weeks to complete.”
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