41. Interview, Sally Morgan
42. Interview, Tony Blair
43. Interview, Tessa Jowell
44. Interview, Richard Wilson
45. Conversation, Cabinet minister
46. Interview, Charles Clarke
47. Interview, Christopher Meyer
48. Conversation, Cabinet minister
49. Interview, Jeremy Greenstock
50. Interview, Christopher Meyer
51. Interview, Clare Short
52. Interview, William Cohen
53. Interview, Paddy Ashdown
54. Sun, 6 April 2002
55. International Herald Tribune, 4 April 2002
56. SECRET AND PERSONAL. Crawford/Iraq. Letter, Straw to Blair, 25 March 2002
57. Interview, David Manning
58. Interview, Christopher Meyer
59. Interview, William Cohen
60. Interview, Condoleezza Rice
61. Interview, Stan Greenberg
62. Interview, George Mitchell
63. The Times, 6 April 2002
64. Interview, Christopher Meyer
65. Interview, David Manning
66. Interview, Christopher Meyer
67. Conversation, Cabinet minister
68. Interview, Sally Morgan
69. Interview, Charles Guthrie
70. Interview, David Manning
71. C. Blair, p. 320
72. Interview, senior civil servant
73. Interview, Michael Levy
74. Interview, Jonathan Powell
75. Interview, Tom Kelly
76. Interview, Christopher Meyer
77. Interview, Peter Mandelson
78. Interview, Tom Kelly
79. Conversation, Cabinet minister
80. Interview, Christopher Meyer
81. Interview, senior civil servant
82. Interview, Tom Kelly
83. Interviews, David Manning and Jonathan Powell
84. Interview, Jonathan Powell
85. SECRET. UK EYES ONLY. Iraq: Conditions for Military Action, Cabinet Office briefing paper for Number 10 meeting, 23 July 2002
86. Interview, David Manning
87. Interview, Christopher Meyer
88. Interview, Andrew Card
89. Seldon (2007), p. 94
90. Interview, Christopher Meyer
91. Blair–Bush news conference, Crawford, Texas, 6 April 2002
92. Interview, Christopher Meyer
93. Tony Blair, speech at the George Bush Senior Presidential Library, Texas, 7 April 2002
94. Interview, Michael Boyce
95. Interview, Mike Jackson
96. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials; Cook, p. 135
97. Interview, Richard Haas
98. Interview, Stan Greenberg
99. Private information
100. Interviews, David Manning and Christopher Meyer; confidential cable, Meyer to Manning, 3 July 2002
101. Interview, Christopher Meyer
102. Interviews, David Manning and Christopher Meyer
103. Interviews, ministers, military officers and officials; SECRET. UK EYES ONLY. Iraq: Prime Minister’s meeting, 23 July 2002
104. SECRET. UK EYES ONLY. Iraq: Conditions for Military Action, Cabinet Office briefing paper for Number 10 meeting, 23 July 2002
105. Interviews, Michael Boyce, Geoff Hoon, Jack Straw and others; SECRET. UK EYES ONLY. Iraq: Prime Minister’s meeting, 23 July 2002
6. Tell Me No Secrets
1. Interview, Barry Cox
2. Interview, Alastair Campbell; A. Campbell, p. 632
3. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
4. Interview, Barry Cox
5. Interview, Stephen Wall
6. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
7. Interview, Michael Boyce
8. It is a curiosity of Britain’s constitution that the Cabinet usually only meets when Parliament is sitting
9. Interview, Neil Kinnock
10. Interview, David Manning
11. Interviews, Ed Owen and Jack Straw
12. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
13. Interview, Ed Owen
14. Conversation, Cabinet minister
15. Conversation, Foreign Office official
16. Interview, Ed Owen
17. Interview, Jack Straw
18. Seldon (2007), p. 102
19. Interview, Michael Jay
20. Interview, Jonathan Powell
21. Interviews, Ed Owen and others
22. Dick Cheney, speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Tennessee, 26 August 2002
23. Conversation, Cabinet minister
24. Interview, David Manning
25. Interview, Michael Boyce
26. Interview, Condoleezza Rice
27. Interview, Jonathan Powell
28. Interview, Christopher Meyer
29. Washington Post, 12 August 2002; New York Times, 16 August 2002
30. Interview, Andrew Card
31. Interview, Christopher Meyer
32. Interview, Christopher Meyer
33. Interviews, Andrew Card, Condoleezza Rice, David Manning and Christopher Meyer
34. Interviews, Andrew Card, Tom Kelly, Christopher Meyer and others; Campbell on p. 635 of his diary has Bush saying: ‘balls’. ‘Cojones’ sounds very much more like Bush and is remembered by the others there
35. Interview, Christopher Meyer
36. Interview, Andrew Card; Woodward (2004), p. 178
37. Interviews, Tom Kelly, Sally Morgan and others
38. Interview, Jonathan Powell
39. Interviews, David Manning and Condoleezza Rice
40. George W. Bush, address to United Nations General Assembly, New York, 12 September 2002
41. Cook, p. 205
42. Tony Blair, statement, Sedgefield, 3 September 2002
43. Interview, Alastair Campbell
44. Alastair Campbell, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 19 August 2003
45. Interview, Stan Greenberg
46. Interview, senior civil servant
47. Interview, Tom Kelly; A. Campbell, p. 633
48. SECRET AND PERSONAL. Letter, Straw to Blair, 25 March 2002
49. Sam Tanenhaus, ‘Bush’s Brain Trust’, Vanity Fair, July 2003
50. SECRET AND PERSONAL. Letter, Straw to Blair, 25 March 2002
51. E-mail, Campbell to Powell, 5 September 2002, evidence to Hutton Inquiry
52. A. Campbell, p. 634
53. Clausewitz, Vol. I, Book I, Chapter VI
54. JIC, 15 March 2002, quoted in Report of the Butler Inquiry, HC 898, 14 July 2004
55. Interview, Robin Butler
56. SECRET. UK EYES ONLY. Iraq: Options Paper, ODS, Cabinet Office, 8 March 2002
57. Interviews, Number 10 and intelligence officials
58. Tenet, pp. 568–71
59. Report of the Butler Inquiry, HC 898, 14 July 2004, pp. 151–2
60. Interviews, members of Joint Intelligence Committee
61. Interview, senior intelligence officer
62. Tony Blair, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 28 August 2003
63. Alastair Campbell, evidence to Foreign Affairs select committee; A. Campbell, p. 636
64. Interview, member of the Joint Intelligence Committee
65. Interview, senior British diplomat
66. Interview, member of the Joint Intelligence Committee
67. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
68. Interview, senior civil servant
69. Interview, Tom Kelly
70. Interview, senior British diplomat
71. Report of the Butler Inquiry, HC 898, 14 July 2004, p. 159
72. Interview, senior civil servant
73. Interview, senior civil servant
74. Interview, Sally Morgan
75. Interview, senior civil servant
76. Interview, senior civil servant
77. Interview, member of Joint Intelligence Committee
78. E-mail, Bassett to Campbell and Smith
, 11 September 2002
79. E-mail, Smith to Campbell, 11September 2002
80. E-mail, Kelly to Campbell, 19 September 2002
81. Interview, Tom Kelly
82. Interview, Robert Hill
83. E-mail, unidentified intelligence official to colleagues, 11 September 2002
84. Interview, Tom Kelly
85. E-mail, Bowen to Scarlett, 11 September 2002. This is one of several documents finally released on 12 March 2009 under Freedom of Information legislation after years of resistance by the Government
86. Brian Jones, evidence to Public Administration Committee, 19 March 2009
87. E-mails between unnamed intelligence officials, 16 September 2002
88. Interview, Andrew Turnbull
89. Interview, David Manning
90. Interview, Sally Morgan
91. Interview, Sally Morgan
92. Evidence to the Scott Inquiry into arms-to-Iraq, cited by Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian, 28 June 2003
93. Interview, Charles Guthrie
94. Interview, Stephen Wall
95. Interview, Geoff Hoon
96. Interviews, senior civil servants
97. Interview, Tessa Jowell
98. Exposed by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Authority; Tenet, pp. 680–721
99. Interview, Ed Owen
100. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
101. E-mail, Powell to Scarlett, 17 September 2002
102. Report of the Butler Inquiry, HC 898, 14 July 2004, pp. 85–6
103. Tom Mangold, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 14 September 2003
104. Richard Dearlove, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 15 September 2003
105. Correspondence released to Hutton Inquiry
106. E-mail, Powell to Campbell and Scarlett, 19 September 2002
107. John Scarlett, evidence to Hutton Inquiry, 23 September 2003
108. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials
109. Interviews, Richard Wilson and Andrew Turnbull
110. Interviews, Richard Wilson and Andrew Turnbull
111. Interview, Robin Butler
112. Interview, Clare Short
113. Cook, p. 212
114. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials; Blunkett (2006), p. 395; A. Campbell, pp. 639–40; Cook, pp. 212–13
115. ‘Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government’, 24 September 2002, p. 4
116. Hansard, 24 September 2002
117. Interview, Clare Short
118. Interview, Jack Straw
119. Interview, Frank Dobson
120. Cook, p. 215
121. The Times, 25 September 2008
122. Sun, 25 September 2008
123. Evening Standard, 24 September 2008
124. Interview, Geoff Hoon
125. Brian Jones, evidence to the Hutton Inquiry; Tom Mangold, Mail on Sunday, 20 July 2003
126. Report of the Butler Inquiry, HC 898, 14 July 2004, p. 156
127. Most trenchantly argued in John Lloyd, ‘Lies, spin and deceit’, Prospect, October 2006
128. Interview, Michael Boyce
129. Interview, Robin Butler
130. Tony Blair, speech to Labour conference, Blackpool, 1 October 2002
131. Interview, Clare Short
132. Tony Blair, speech to Labour conference, Blackpool, 1 October 2002
133. Conversation, minister
134. Bill Clinton, speech to Labour conference, Blackpool, 3 October 2002
135. A. Campbell, p. 641
136. Jo Conason, ‘Love ya Tony’, Guardian, 23 April 2003
137. Interview, George Mitchell
138. Interview, William Cohen
7. Trouble and Strife
1. Interview, David Trimble
2. C. Blair, p. 17
3. Ibid., p. 35
4. Interview, Blair aide
5. C Blair, p. 369
6. Ibid., p. 346
7. Interview, senior civil servant
8. Interview, senior civil servant
9. Interview, Blair aide
10. Interview, senior civil servant
11. Interview, senior civil servant
12. Interview, senior civil servant
13. Interview, Barry Cox
14. Interview, Jonathan Powell
15. Interview, Alastair Campbell
16. More (US) magazine, 17 February 2009
17. C. Blair, p. 328
18. Interviews, Number 10 officials and aides
19. Interview, Blair aide
20. Interviews, Number 10 officials and aides
21. Interview, Sally Morgan
22. Interview, senior civil servant
23. Interview, Blair aide
24. Conversation, Cabinet minister
25. Ann Applebaum, Sunday Telegraph, 18 March 2001
26. In the first year after he left Number 10, it was estimated that he coined £12 million.
27. Conversation, Blair aide
28. Interview, Paddy Ashdown
29. Interview, Matthew Taylor
30. Conversations, Blair aides
31. Servants of the People, Chapter 6
32. Hansard, 13 February 2002
33. Jeffrey Archer and Jonathan Aitken
34. Observer, 19 May 2002
35. Patrick Wintour, Guardian, 13 May 2002
36. Ibid.
37. Interview, Philip Gould
38. P. Morgan, p. x
39. Bill Haggerty, ‘Paul Dacre: The Zeal Thing’, British Journalism Review, 3, 2002, pp. 11–22
40. Conversation, Cabinet minister
41. Interview, Cabinet minister
42. Interviews, Blair aides; C. Blair, p. 308
43. Alastair Campbell, ‘It’s Time to Bury Spin’, British Journalism Review, 4, 2002, pp. 15–23
44. Guardian, Independent, 10 October 2001
45. Interview, Stephen Byers
46. Observer, 21 October 2001
47. Interview, Stephen Byers
48. Sunday Times, 24 February 2002
49. Andrew Rawnsley, ‘Even when he’s right, he’ll be wrong’, Observer, 12 May 2002
50. Interview, Stephen Byers
51. Peter Oborne, ‘How Tony Blair tried to muscle in on the mourning’, The Spectator, 11 April 2002
52. Interview, Richard Wilson
53. Interview, Tony Blair
54. Conversations, Blair aides
55. Interview, Robert Harris
56. Interview, Margaret Jay
57. Interview, Charlie Falconer
58. Interview, Blair friend
59. Prescott, p. 264
60. Interview, Tom Kelly
61. Interview, Sally Morgan
62. C. Blair, p. 334
63. Daily Mail, 28 November 2002
64. C. Blair, p. 337
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