{"id":143076,"date":"2015-01-21T21:39:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T21:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143076"},"modified":"2015-01-21T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T21:40:17","slug":"mps-demand-date-sexed-iraq-war-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/mps-demand-date-sexed-iraq-war-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs demand a date for &#8216;sexed down&#8217; Iraq War inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jason Beattie, Jack Blanchard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Furious MPs have demanded that Sir John Chilcot gives a date for the publication of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/chilcot-report-politicians-demand-date-4526994\" target=\"_blank\">long-awaited report into the 2003 Iraq War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their calls came amid claims the \u00adfindings of the \u00a310 million inquiry were being held up and \u201csexed down\u201d to allow key witnesses to dodge criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiry chief Sir John has written to David Cameron to say there was \u201cno realistic \u00adprospect\u201d the report would be out before May\u2019s general election \u2014 more than twelve years after the 2003 invasion and six years since the probe started.<\/p>\n<p>The news yesterday of yet more delays provoked outrage from the families of soldiers who died in the conflict and MPs from across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Lib Dem Norman Baker, a former Home Office minister, said: \u201cI think Sir John Chilcot should give a clear timetable. He should set a \u00addeadline for replies and give a clear publication date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labour\u2019s John McDonnell raged: \u201cI think it is an absolute scandal. As far as I\u2019m concerned they are covering up the truth again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to choose their own timetable, so when the \u00adinformation comes out it has the least possible effect. At the very least he should now set a deadline for publication. It is the least people deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/chilcot-report-mps-demand-date-5019300?\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Beattie, Jack Blanchard Furious MPs have demanded that Sir John Chilcot gives a date for the publication of his long-awaited report into the 2003 Iraq War. Their calls came amid claims the \u00adfindings of the \u00a310 million inquiry were being held up and \u201csexed down\u201d to allow key witnesses to dodge criticism. Inquiry chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}