The Secret Foreign Policy 109


Adam Werritty has given an interview to the Spectator. I cannot find the original online, but there is a BBC report of it here.

It appears an exercise in misdirection. Sri Lanka is mentioned but never Israel. He denies having ever claimed to have any expertise in defence, despite the fact that “a certain expertise” was precisely Gus O’Donnell’s justification for his presence at the Ministry of Defence briefing meeting for Matthew Gould, British Ambassador to Israel.

Werritty asks “What had this ‘villainous’ Adam Werritty actually done?”, while being interviewed by a friendly neo-con rag. It is of course the journalist that should be asking that question, and Werritty has shunned everyone who might seriously ask about it. Meanwhile the parliamentary Table Office refuses to accept MPs’ questions about Werritty’s meetings with Gould, and the FCO refuses Freedom of Information requests for the correspondence between them.

I have not seen anybody deny that Gus O’Donnell’s report omitted a minimum of five Fox-Gould-Werritty meetings. The government refuses to answer questions and refuse to release the correspondence. But they have at no stage denied the allegations published here, around the web, and in the Independent on Sunday.

At the House of Commons Public Administration Committee, extreme zionist Conservative MP Robert Halfon attempted to defend Gus O’Donnell from accusations that he covered up a secret government policy with Israel over Iran, in which Werritty was involved. Halfon is the former paid Political Director of the Conservative Friends of Israel. His defence of O’Donnell – and Fox-Werritty – is extremely revealing.

Q381 Robert Halfon: Is it not for the Prime Minister to decide whether a Minister has broken collective responsibility, rather than yourself?
Sir Gus O’Donnell: Yes, absolutely. On this whole issue of violations of the code, I was just providing advice for the Prime Minister. It is the Prime Minister who decides.
Q382 Robert Halfon: So whether or not there was a separate policy is nothing to do with you; it is to do with the Prime Minister making a decision on whether or not a Minister broke the ministerial code.
Sir Gus O’Donnell: Yes.

I have no doubt that there is a “separate policy” on Israel and Iran, different to that acknowledged in public. I have no doubt that the Fox/Gould/Werritty meetings – and the blanket cover-up of them from scrutiny in parliament, documents or the media – afford a key way into it.


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109 thoughts on “The Secret Foreign Policy

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  • angrysoba

    while being interviewed by a friendly neo-con rag – (which is all the once fine Economist now is).
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    The Economist is not a “neo-con rag”!

  • Uzbek in the UK

    Well, well, well.
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    There is nothing new under sun.
    The problem is that foreign policy has become so much complicated that it cannot be trusted to the democratically elected assembly such as the parliament. Formally western foreign policy is constrained with various of so called liberal agreements such as respect of Human Rights, denunciation of torture or violation of Human Rights, unconditional respect of sovereignty of other nations. In practise at presently valued neo-colonial methods of foreign policy, western powers (US and UK primarily) had to use so called backdoors politics when it comes to establishing and formulating of a foreign policy. And parliament is just presented with already formulated and ‘ready to do’ strategy and asked or in some cases forced to approve it. Basically parliament was reduced to the rubber stamp establishment.
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    Basically, I will not be surprised if in few weeks to come, parliament and Congress are presented with a ‘ready to do’ strategy over Iran. Nothing else is going to be relevant, because Iran is the major treat to Israel (or at least Israeli establishment think so) and also contributed to it the fact of strong pro-Israeli lobbies in both US and UK policy making circles.

  • craig Post author

    Angrysoba

    Typo, now corrected. On the other hand I was shocked three days ago to see the chief editor of the Economist on Sky News state that the current financial crisis was due to overspending by governments and was “not in any way the fault of the banks”. What an arse. Like you, I used to be a fan of the Economist.

  • Passerby

    Q382 Robert Halfon: So whether or not there was a separate policy is nothing to do with you
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    That collectively includes anyone other than the prime minister, so far as these rouge zionist cabal are concerned. They have all too easily bypassed all safe guards and have been busy implementing their own policies without so much as any hints of checks and balances. Further bypassed are; any scrutiny of the said policies by the elected representatives, engaged in adherence to democratic scrutinisation of the processes of implementation of policies of government.
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    This cannot be a healthy affair, ex director of the CFI Robert Halfon filibuster, and obstruction in this process of scrutiny, itself ought to be subject to a separate investigation, as to finding out what does he know, and why is he so intent to obfuscate the truth, by derailing any attempt in getting to truth?

  • Uzbek in the UK

    Mr Murray,
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    Do not you think that there are few contributors to the current financial and economic crisis and that government’s overspending (including military) are also contributing factors to this crisis? Greedy bankers played major role in it, but also governments with their unproportionate budgets that they formed in the search of political support.
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    Greece is one good example. Their economy is not only unbalanced but their public sector is totally unproportionate and still being subsidised by Germany

  • Njegos

    BBC, Guardian, Spectator, Economist. What a sorry bunch. Once they were worth watching and reading on Israel and the Middle East. Now they all tow the neo-con line. All of them are obsessed with “terrorism” in every imaginary form. That way they keep the Israeli lobby and the government (or do I repeat myself) off their backs. You can just see their reaction when we finally attack Iran.
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    eg.”I know we may have been misled on Iraq but this time the threat is real…..”
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    The only real threat is from the mainstream media who have colluded in the assault on indpendent journalism, open government and the truth.

    Comic books, all of them.

  • Uzbek in the UK

    Arsalan,
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    Not to argue with you but for the last 15 years Arabs (or putting it more correctly leaders of Arabic nations) are amongst major investors in all kind of financial products. Some of the major banks are owned by some of the most lucrative investment funds from the middle east.

  • Uzbek in the UK

    I personally think that deception does not have a side. Whether right wing or left wing, deception is all the same. I was born and grew up in the place where extreme form of left wing deception was supreme and it did not feel to be better than current supreme right wing deception.

  • Ruth

    If we have a secret foreign policy, then surely it’s quite logical to assume that real decision making does not come from parliament or the Cabinet; that there’s a secret power behind which evidence points to its control of the intelligence services and hidden control of a plethora of companies including those involved in natural resources, armaments and security.

  • Komodo

    The BBC’s report on this certainly leant heavily on Werrity in Sri Lanka. Where, as Bell Pottinger were rather in competition with him, he probably didn’t achieve very much at all. I don’t recall hearing Israel or Mossad mentioned, though.
    The Spectator (interesting logo on its Blogs page: a megaphone)may not publish the piece until the 17th, with its print edition. If it isn’t pulled for reasons of national security that remain unexplained, like this one:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/25/removed-adam-werrity-donors-tory-party

  • nuid

    “real decision making does not come from parliament or the Cabinet”
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    That was the case under Blair, was it not. He arranged policy (in relation to Iraq) with Bush. And isn’t/wasn’t there controversy over his communications with Bush being released in relation to the Iraq Inquiry?
    I get a shiver down my back.

  • nuid

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  • Passerby

    Uzbek in the UK,
    Cease and desist from being a weather vane.
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    “Greece is one good example. Their economy is not only unbalanced”
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    Greece was the time bomb to destroy Euro, as were some of the other economies that were qualified for accession to EU by cooking their books, aided and abetted by US banks and rating agencies.

  • Uzbek in the UK

    I bet that public sector workers in Greece did not mind 30% increase in their salaries in the last 3 years before the crisis struck and possibly the earliest retirement age in the EU.

  • Uzbek in the UK

    Going back to the main debate.
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    It is hard to recall a time when foreign policy was a result of broad agreement? Is not it always that some dark forces are involved in undermining and directing foreign policy? Various wars in the last century including WWII could produce some good examples.
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    Basically foreign policy is always a policy directed to the domination of weaker party by a stronger party. Putting it in other words if you want to have good times, feed your own army, or you will feed foreign army on your soil. This doctrine has worked quite well since when humans learned to use tools.

  • MJ

    I bet the banks don’t mind picking up Greece’s national assets at pennies in the pound. And why exactly did Papandreou cash in the Credit Default Swap his predecessor had purchased, a CDS which, had it remained, would have saved the Greeks from liability for any default?

  • John Goss

    As Jews for Justice for Palestinians reportedin mid-October:
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    “Its advisory board has included George Osborne, William Hague and Michael Gove, all members of Cameron’s government, while the PM’s communications chief, Gabby Bertin, has been a researcher for Fox on the project.
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    The advisers could not have been more right-wing or impressive. In 2007, according to the website Powerbase, they included: Lord Tebbit, Patrick Minford, Lord Astor of Hever, Clark S Judge of the White House Writers Group, Eleanor Laing MP, John Whittingdale MP, and Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute.”
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    http://jfjfp.com/?p=25985
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    Cameron kept his nose clean in the Atlantic Bridge affair because he did not need to be involved. His wife, Samantha, is daughter to Lord Astor showing just how close Cameron really is to these other nasties. Believe me, there was no logical reason for him using a veto in Europe. His purpose is longer term and he disclosed it in the Sunday Express of 21 Aug 2011 when he vowed to fight the “hated” European Law and Law on Human Rights. The reason is clear. It is the same reason why the US is not a member of the International Criminal Court. If there is no higher authority than our highest authority then these nasty beings feel they can continue war-crimes, torture and abuse, theft of oil and other mineral wealth with impunity.

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  • Uzbek in the UK

    Banks never miss an opportunity to cash on anything, even and especially during bad times, including wars.
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    The point I wanted to raise is that governmental overspending has also contributed to the current financial and economic crisis. Banks were cashing on public salaries, benefits, pensions as much as they were cashing on each bullet that was used by coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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    Whenever you spend each of your pennies benefit greed of the bankers. We can of course suggest to run economy without banks but it has proven to be wrong in 1990th.

  • Passerby

    MJ,
    For the same reason he had a rethink on the issue of referendum. JFK movies are always a good eye opener/mind change/force majeure for any of the would be self-reliant leaders.
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    However, considering that there is such a rush to hand over the foreign policy to “special interests” or root it in the law of the jungle, perhaps BICOM are keeping an eye on this blog, seeing as its director Lorna Fitzaimons, holds; “public opinion does not influence foreign policy in Britain. Foreign policy is an elite issue.”, ie never mind the democratic processes, oligarchs know best.
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    Meanwhile back at the farm;
    Peers banned from Lords In case they pay for their fielded expenses scam, by their attendance allowance.
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    Dounchyou like the smell of democracy in the morning?

  • Passerby

    Craig;
    Also, One of the most distressing moments at Herzliya came when

    Lorna Fitzsimons, former Labour MP and now head of Bicom, a British-based pro-Israeli think-tank, pointed out that “public opinion does not influence foreign policy in Britain. Foreign policy is an elite issue.” Deal with the elite, and the proles will follow – that was the implication. “Our enemies are going out to international courts where we are not supreme,” she said.
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    However if you follow the footnote in the link forwarded in the former comment, you will notice the link to the Morning Star, a “crafty” move in “discounting” the impact of that statement.

  • Mary

    I put that BBC link up here yesterday describing it as meaningless drivel and saying there was no link on the Spectator. The Spectator editor Frazer Nelson with a strange Scottish accent is often invited on to the news channels for his ‘opinion’.

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    Reading the Times today, in a cafe I hasten to add – never give a penny to Murdoch remember, they had the same thing almost word for word. Who is putting out this stuff?
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    See that Nelson was once with Screws of the World.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Nelson

  • Jives

    I can’t get a link or reference to this on either the BBC or Spectator sites. The memory hole appears to get faster and bigger by the day.At this rate the MSM will report no news at all just the results of X Factor type fodder.Worrying,really,when you think about it.

  • John Goss

    If you have a library nearby they may have a copy of the Spectator. Butlibraries are short of cash – and if I was looking to cut subscriptions it would be one of the first places I’d look. Having said that, they opposed the Falklands’ War – on economic grounds.

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