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Cameron Pressures Blair to Release Secret Letters to Bush

   British PM makes plea after Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell refused to
   declassify Mr. Blair's letters to then US President George W. Bush

   VOA News  20 January 2011

Photo: AP

   British Prime Minister David Cameron (file photo)

   British  Prime  Minister  David  Cameron is appealing to the public to
   pressure his predecessor, Tony Blair, to release secret documents from
   the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

   Mr.  Cameron  made  the  plea  after  Cabinet  Secretary Gus O'Donnell
   refused  to  declassify  Mr.  Blair's  letters  to then U.S. President
   George W. Bush, saying doing so is not in the public's best interest.

   Mr.  Cameron said Mr. Blair should drop his demand for secrecy when he
   testifies before the Iraq Inquiry on Friday.

   On  Wednesday,  the  inquiry  released  evidence  that  a former Blair
   secretary  created  different  accounts  of  conversations between Mr.
   Blair and Mr. Bush to conceal the content of the actual discussions.

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