Sir Lawrence Freedman's involvement in Tony Blair's Chicago speech

18 January 2010

The Iraq Inquiry held an evidence session with Jonathan Powell on Monday 18th January 2010. In advance of this session, Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman sent the following letter to Sir John Chilcot (download letter here) setting out clearly his contact (download contact memo here) with Jonathan Powell and his involvement in the speech Tony Blair made in Chicago on 24th April 1999.