The National Security Archive has been doing great work going back and collecting the documents leading to the Iraq War, adding some it acquired through FOIA. Its first installment provided new evidence of how quickly the Bush Administration turned to targeting Iraq both before and after 9/11. Its second installment looked at whether anyone had [...]

The reporting on the latest torture documents released in Binyam Mohamed’s suit in the UK is damning enough (Beeb, Guardian). They show the highest levels of the British government–up to and including Tony Blair–were getting warnings that Americans were using torture within six months of 9/11. Yet they placed those warnings aside so they could [...]

Apparently, the Poodle’s memoir (the tour for which got a little messy in Dublin) confirms something that was blatantly obvious: Dick Cheney wanted to conquer the entire Middle East, country by country. Describing the former US vice president as an advocate of “hard, hard power”, Mr Blair said Damascus was next on Mr Cheney’s hit [...]

Tony Blair explains he had to get rid of Saddam to change the region.

Andrew Gilligan–the reporter that revealed that the UK’s Iraq War dossier had been “sexed up”–is the reporter that got leaked the damning British Iraq War report.

The Guardian reports that Bandar allegedly threatened Tony Blair to force him to halt an investigation into BAE-related bribes of Bandar.

Lord Goldsmith tried in vain to prevent the Poodle from spiking the investigation into BAE. That’s not surprising. What is surprising is the language Tony used to dissuade Goldsmith.