Will Chilcot Ever Reveal a New Fact?

As far as I can tell the Chilcot Inquiry has yet to unearth anything that hasn;t been public knowledge for years. Today it’s Jonathan Powell’s turn to confirm Stuff We Already Knew. As Paul Waugh reports:

But perhaps more interesting is the detail he gave of the trip to Downing Street by Dick Cheney a month before in March 2002. Little has so far been revealed about this crunch meeting, which may well have coloured Blair’s actions from then on. The Veep, the most senior hawk in the White House at the time, dropped into Number 10 ahead of a tour of Middle East allies on which he wanted to test opinion of the impact of a war on Iraq. At the meeting – and this is the first detail of its contents from Powell – Blair set out some of the “unintended consequences” of military action. But Powell reveals that Cheney was implacable. “He said at the end of the meeting that a coalition would be nice, but not essential.