Secrets are like sex
Neal Ascherson, 2 April 2020
The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain
by Richard Norton-Taylor.
I.B. Tauris, 352 pp., £20, March 2019,978 1 78831 218 9 Show More
by Richard Norton-Taylor.
I.B. Tauris, 352 pp., £20, March 2019,
“... to Iraq’) and the devastating Scott Inquiry which that trial provoked. He followed the Hutton Inquiry into the government scientist David Kelly’s suicide and the ‘sexed-up’ intelligence dossier on Saddam Hussein’s mythical weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq War. He dissected the grotesquely delayed Chilcot Report, which described ... ”