Chilcot inquiry: who's who in the investigation

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Luke Harding and Richard Norton-Taylor
Tuesday 5 July 2016 12.00 EDT

... Alastair Campbell ... Blair’s official spokesman, played a major role in shaping the government’s aggressive Iraq strategy ...

Sir Mark Allen, head of MI6 counter-terrorism operations, ... warned that any invasion of Iraq would lead to “increased distrust of US motives throughout the Islamic world” and would damage the UK too ...

Lord Goldsmith, attorney general ... played a key role in giving the Iraq war legal cover ...

Jack Straw, foreign secretary, ... received unequivocal advice from his own department that a war in Iraq would be illegal. Straw didn’t accept it, though ...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/05/chilcot-inquiry-the-key-personnel-in-the-run-up-to-invasion-of-iraq-tony-blair-hans-blix

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