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Richard Norton-Taylor - Bush and Blair's pre-Iraq conversation must be disclosed, tribunal rules
May 23, 2012 Extracts of a phone conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush a few days before the invasion of Iraq must be disclosed, a tribunal has ruled.
The Foreign Office lost an appeal against an order by the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, to disclose records of the conversation between the two leaders on 12 March 2003. Graham's order was made in response to a freedom of informationrequest by Stephen Plowden, a private individual who demanded disclosure of the entire record of the conversation.
"Accountability for the decision to take military action against another country is paramount," Graham had said in his original order.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/21/bush-blair-pre-iraq-conversation
