David Miliband was involved in the promise to protect America's interests during the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.

Jon Day, the Ministry of Defence's director general for security policy, told US under-secretary of state Ellen Tauscher that the UK had "put measures in place to protect your interests during the UK inquiry into the causes of the Iraq war".

No American officials were called to give evidence in public, and evidence from US officials was heard in private during visits by inquiry members to the US. The inquiry was also refused permission to publish letters between George Bush and Tony Blair written in 2002 in the run-up to the war, even though they were referred to in evidence.


In Full:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/3...raq-war-inquiry

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/po...py-2148010.html