Ministry of Defence told US that UK had 'put measures in place' to protect American interests during Chilcot inquiry
Dec. 1, 2010 (The Guardian) -- The British government promised to protect America's interests during the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, according to a secret cable sent from the US embassy in London.
Jon Day, the Ministry of Defence's director general for security policy, told U.S. under-secretary of state Ellen Tauscher that the UK had "put measures in place to protect your interests during the UK inquiry into the causes of the Iraq war."
The admission came in the cable sent on 22 September 2009, which recorded a series of high-level meetings between Tauscher and UK defence officials and diplomats, which involved the then foreign secretary, David Miliband.
Day was a senior adviser to the Labour government, and told the American delegation that "Iraq seems no longer to be a major issue in the United States," but said it would become a big issue -- a "feeding frenzy" -- in the UK "when the inquiry takes off."