I TOLD YOU : TORIES DEMAND LABOUR STRAW AND BLAIR GIVE EVIDENCE BUT NOT MI5 OR MI6

What did I suggest this morning?

That the torture report would be politicised because of the GE next year?

Read this just published by The Daily Mirror:

...ISC chair Sir Malcolm Rifkind vowed to make any Minister with a “contribution” give evidence next year, adding: “If they refuse to do so, that would imply they had something to hide.”

...Tory Defence Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday demanded Blair and Straw answer questions from the ISC, adding: “It’s for Ministers in that Government to account for their actions.” Sir Malcolm’s committee will also ask for all redacted parts of the US Senate’s report, published last week, into CIA torture relating to the UK.

The ISC chair raged: “If people deserve to be embarrassed, it’s our job to embarrass them.”

Home Secretary Theresa May faces questions from MPs this afternoon on her role in any redactions.

But former British ambassador Craig Murray, sacked in 2004 over claims of British complicity in torture, blasted: “We don’t need an inquiry, we need a trial. And it should be Tony Blair and Jack Straw in the dock.”

[source : Tony Blair and Jack Straw to face public interrogation over CIA torture claims, The Daily Mirror, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tony-blair-jack-straw-face-4810864#ICID=sharebar_twitter, 14th December 2014]

This is my favourite line:

The ISC chair raged: “If people deserve to be embarrassed, it’s our job to embarrass them.”

Raging Rifkind didn't embarrass MI5 over the report into Lee Rigby. On the contrary, Raging Rifkind pulled his pants down and bent over.

Blair and Straw are going to get all the blame, because everyone hates Blair so Labour won't defend him, and the Tories, Libs and SNP will hammer this as a Labour thing, not an establishment thing.

In a way I feel some sympathy for Blair and Straw in this, but it serves them right for being dickheads!!!