Brown tells MPs waiting for Iraq Dossier to be released that decision is coming "very soon"

[ck4829]

Gordon Brown has told MPs the government will decide “very soon” whether to release the secret draft of the Iraq wmd dossier written by Foreign Office (FCO) spin doctor John Williams.

The Information Tribunal ruled two weeks ago that the document, which I requested in February 2005, should be released under the Freedom of Information Act.

At Prime Minister’s Questions this lunchtime, Tory MP John Baron asked Brown whether he would “now immediately release the document, and if not, why not?” Brown replied that “a decision will be announced very soon.”

Commenting afterwards Baron said, “The Government has for too long withheld the truth about the role played by spin doctors in producing the Iraq Dossier. Now the Information Tribunal agrees that the Williams draft could have played a greater part in influencing the drafting of the dossier than the Government has so far admitted – even to the Hutton inquiry. The public deserves to decide for ourselves the importance of this document in the run up to war.”

http://www.newstatesman.com/200802060003

What do you think he's waiting for, maybe a bigger event that would take the dossier out of the news, or maybe he's looking for a way to 'misplace' the dossier?

[TahitiNut]

1. A dodgy dossier in draft form? Droll.

:silly: