The ricin plot continues to thicken slowly from

The most brilliant demolition job on Blair's version of reality with those pesky little facts....

Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan’s polemical take on politics, economics and foreign affairs

I wonder who could help them with their inquiries?!

World news

Audit reveals billions of dollars of Iraqi oil funds gone missing

• guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
• Martin Chulov in Baghdad

The US department of defence has called in forensic accountants to help track $8.1bn (£5.2bn) of $9.1bn in Iraq's oil revenue entrusted to it after the fall of Baghdad, following an official audit that revealed the money was missing. The funds were to be used for spending on reconstruction during 2004-07, a period when Iraq was under weak transitional rule.

So the Pentagon doesn't do war, intelligence or accounting .... wonder what it is good at?

Couple of exchanges from  Baroness Manningham-Buller DCB (Deputy Director General, Security Service until 2002  Director General, Security Service, 2002 to 2007)'s testimony to the Chilcot enquiry

SIR LAWRENCE FREEDMAN: Were you given sight of some of the material produced by the Pentagon?
BARONESS MANNINGHAM-BULLER: I don't think I was. Probably a good thing; it would have made me cross.
SIR LAWRENCE FREEDMAN: Thank you.

on the Pentagon