{"id":248170,"date":"2016-06-06T14:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tony-blairs-spin-doctor-escapes-iraq-inquirys-rebuke\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:17:02","slug":"tony-blairs-spin-doctor-escapes-iraq-inquirys-rebuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/tony-blairs-spin-doctor-escapes-iraq-inquirys-rebuke\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair\u2019s spin doctor escapes Iraq inquiry&#039;s rebuke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"84\">\n<p><strong>Former British Prime Minister\u00a0Toby Blair\u2019s spin doctor Alastair Campbell is reportedly set to be cleared of any wrongdoing by the Chilcot inquiry into the UK\u2019s role in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Campbell will escape serious criticism by the inquiry report due on July 6, sources said on Sunday, despite having a role in compiling\u00a0 the infamous \u201cdoggy dossier\u201d that made the case for the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>The dossier, which was based on faulty intelligence, said that former Iraqi\u00a0dictator\u00a0Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that could hit British targets in Cyprus within 45 minuets.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell, who worked as Director of Communications and strategy for former\u00a0Labour premier Blair, had reportedly a role in creating the dossier that was presented to the government and the media.<\/p>\n<p>The Chilcot inquiry\u2019s blame will therefore fall on Blair and intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that Campbell has not received a letter from the inquiry that sets&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/06\/06\/469192\/Britain-Blair-Campbell-Chilcot-Iraq\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British Prime Minister\u00a0Toby Blair\u2019s spin doctor Alastair Campbell is reportedly set to be cleared of any wrongdoing by the Chilcot inquiry into the UK\u2019s role in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Campbell will escape serious criticism by the inquiry report due on July 6, sources said on Sunday, despite having a role in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248170","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=248170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}