Congressional inquiry on intelligence services

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

BBC reports the Congressional inquiry on the intelligence services, but
notes that the issue has not attracted the controversy in the USA that it
has in the UK, where Blair is seen to be very vulnerable, and where an
inquiry is seen as much more significant than just an extension of the US
constitutional balance between legislature and executive.

This editorial in today's Guardian I am sure correctly identifies that an
inquiry in the UK is inevitable, and concentrates on preparing the ground
for what sort of inquiry. There is virtually a unanimous consensus across
the bourgeois political specturm in the UK that an inquiry is inevitable.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,969124,00.html

Note also how in the US, the UK and Australia, the imperialist
intelligentsia are demanding that their integrity is upheld and that their
use by sectional political interests is monitored. Developing international
law and professional good practice are merging. We are seeing  what will
probably not be an earthquake, but I suggest a further step towards the
global politics of Empire.


Chris Burford
London