It has emerged that Lord Goldsmith has conspired with others to attempt to pervert the course of justice in the BAE/Saudi arms scandal.
"Attention is focusing on a key meeting in Whitehall in March, when unnamed Ministry of Defence officials joined the attorney general's staff and SFO investigators in composing a strategy.
Critics say there seems to have been a deliberate attempt to deceive the international community".
Other links to this story here, here, here and here.
I do have a lot of respect for Lord Woolf, and he may well be the right choice to head up an "independent" inquiry. However, I do remember him judging one of my cases and rather than put the Prison Service under pressure he chose to allow them to get off the hook.
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