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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"UK's Snowden", Sir Richard Dearlove, Former MI6 Chief, Threatens To Expose Iraq War Details
Sir Richard Dearlove, Former MI6 Chief, Threatens To Expose Iraq War Details07/22/2013 * Huffington Post
The former head of Britain's intelligence agency has threatened to expose new details about the state of affairs leading up to the Iraq war.
Sir Richard Dearlove, who helmed the MI6 from 1999 to 2004, told the UK's Mail On Sunday that he has spent the last year writing "a record of events surrounding the invasion of Iraq from my then professional perspective." Dearlove told the Mail that he has been planning to leave his account as a record for scholars, but may reveal the details sooner if he doesn't agree with the findings of Britain's Chilcot Inquiry, which is investigating the country's role in the lead-up to the Iraq War:
'My intention is that this should be a resource available to scholars, but after my decease (may be sooner depending on what Chilcot publishes). I have no intention, however, of violating my vows of official secrecy by publishing any memoir.'
Dearlove, now Master at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, has taken a sabbatical from academic life to work on this account, and is said to be "extremely aggrieved" that Prime Minister Tony Blair and his chief spokesman Alastair Campbell overstated the possibility that Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons could jeopardize British troops in Cyprus, according to the Mail.
A security source told the Mail on Sunday that the account is "Sir Richard's time-bomb."
Dearlove is perhaps best known in the United States for denying MI6 involvement in the 1997 death of Princess Diana.
One Brit weighed in on Twitter, referring to Dearlove as "our own Snowden" while another wondered if Dearlove would be found "dead in a forest with minor cuts on his wrists":
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/richard-dearlove_n_3635208.html
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"UK's Snowden", Sir Richard Dearlove, Former MI6 Chief, Threatens To Expose Iraq War Details (Original Post)
99th_Monkey
Jul 2013
OP
Who in the hell does anyone think can be changed now, the GOP spent over $100 million
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)1. It would've been nice if he had developed a conscience before March 20, 2003.
But, better late than never, I suppose.
randome
(34,845 posts)2. Comparing him to Snowden is an insult.
If he actually has evidence, unlike Snowden, more power to him!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)3. Who in the hell does anyone think can be changed now, the GOP spent over $100 million
On investigating a blow job and what did they find out, there was a blow job. It is alright to write history books now but it will not change anything.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)4. "sweep it all up" nt