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May 21, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
1/ Following @neilconneryitv's report last night on ITV News and #harrydunn's mum's call for resignations, the UK Govt unsurprisingly now engaged in a last ditched attempt to protect an impossible political position through their chief spinner in the FCO @roxley.
2/ They volunteer, out of the blue, after 9 months, that @DominicRaab was unaware of the crisis before 12 Sept and that @BorisJohnson was only made aware after 15 Sept. If that is true, then they would disclose documents in support. They refuse to do so. We believe it is not true
3/ Docs disclosed in fact prove that both @DominicRaab's private secretary and @SMcDonaldFCO private secretary amongst others were notified of the problem in a memo on 30 August. Do the spinners really expect us to believe that Raab and Johnson were not informed there and then?
4/ In the middle of the Brexit frenzy, desperate for a trade deal with USA @DominicRaab and @trussliz enjoying @USAmbUK's hospitality while #harrydunn's family were preparing for his funeral, they expect us to believe that the civil service mandarins were keeping all this to
5/ themselves. Pull the other one guys. We weren't born yesterday. The UK Govt pretends to care about Harry's family, gaslighting and misleading the nation. Continually offering a further meeting with Mr Raab. What they fail to tell the nation is that they let #annesacoolas
6/ leave unlawfully and have been involved in a desperate attempt to cover it up ever since. #HarryDunn's parents have met with @DominicRaab 3 times. I hold regular meetings with his team. Not once have they bothered to tell the truth. Instead they lie and conceal. And then
7/ when forced to do so by the media, volunteer a new piece of information, not to the parents, but to the media in a fumbled attempt to explain away an embarrassing photo. Dialogue is good. But it has to be based on a platform of truthful exchanges. The UK Govt have lied to us
8/ Happy to talk to them anytime, but all those responsible for allowing #annesacoolas to leave unlawfully and then trying to cover it up will be held to account. If @roxley or any other advisers wish to engage in a genuine discussion towards that end, you know where I am.

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Jul 23, 2020
1/ This was @StateDept’s position in January on #annesacoolas “If the US were to grant the UK’s extradition request, it would render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would set an extraordinarily troubling precedent.” That is a palpable absurdity
2/ Translated: “We never waive diplomatic immunity when our people break local laws and we are frightened that if we do so now we’ll have to do it every time in the future.
3/ Every single right minded rules based country in the world including 🇬🇧 waives immunity in these circumstances without hesitation. Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations provides for this and indeed encourages this practice.
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Jun 23, 2020
FS @DominicRaab put a statement into Parliament on 20.12.19, the day #annesacoolas was charged, saying he had instructed his officials to discuss with the US how best to address the "anomaly" at the Croughton annex that gives dependants greater protection than US staff themselves
2/ Here it is hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-1… Image
3/ That conversation would go something likes this:

UK: Will you agree with us that no CIA officer's spouse should ever be allowed to kill us again and just walk away? Please, it's really important. We have to fix it.

US: No way in hell. Now what r u going to do about it?!
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Jun 20, 2020
1/ While @USAmbUK Woody Johnson nauseatingly tries to pretend in his posts on twitter that the current relationship between the US and the UK is a harmonious and balanced one, he and his colleagues in Washington are in reality behaving like a bully and an oppressor.
2/ Nowhere is this more apparent than in their approach to the tragic cases of #HarryDunn and #deansprouting where they have failed to do the right things by the family and ensure that those responsible for their deaths are held to account.
3/ They clearly take the position that the lives of UK citizens, and the feelings of their families are unimportant. The US Govt knows well that the injustice in both cases will be reversed and that there is no other way forward, hard as they try to sweep things under the carpet.
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Jun 18, 2020
1/ The most troubling thing by far to come out of the disclosure from the FCO is a note from civil servants to Tony Baldry, FCO minister in the 1990s relating to CIA officers being stationed at Croughton and arguing that no one there should be above the law, which predicted that
2/ road safety and road crashes were likely and would draw unwelcome public and media attention to the very secret work the US do on base. Tragically, having highlighted that risk, which as we know materialised in #harrydunn's case, no mitigating steps were taken by that govt...
3/ or successive govts to reduce the risk of crashes. A clear failure to protect the lives of UK citizens. To that extent, they all have Harry's blood on their hands and the current govt should step forward, admit that, and apologise on behalf of previous govts to the family.
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Jun 18, 2020
As we head into today's court hearing, #harrydunn's parents' position is: 1/ No one is above the law. 2/ In allowing CIA officers/their dependents to be based at RAF Croughton in the 1990s, the UK Govt at the time agreed with the US Govt at the time that that should be the case.
3/ Notwithstanding that, when Harry died, the UK Govt rolled up and acquiesced to the US Govt who decided to behave like an enemy in recalling #annesacoolas instead of an ally. In doing so, the UK Govt unlawfully abused its power in allowing Mrs S to leave.
4/ It was for the police to establish whether Mrs S had immunity from prosecution. Yet, the UK Govt kept them completely in the dark about the problems surrounding Mrs S' claim to immunity.
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Jun 3, 2020
1/ At a meeting with @DominicRaab on 27/1 at the FCO following the rejection of the extradition request by Pompeo on 23/1 and before Raab met Pompeo in London on 29/1, #HarryDunn's parents and I asked him what steps the UK were going to take in response to the rejection.
2/ We suggested strong action was now required incl expelling diplomats, imposing sanctions, stopping extraditions to the USA due to lack of reciprocity and closing the US bases. Mr Raab indicated that they were reviewing all their options but shockingly admitted that they were
3/ limited. "If we threaten them, look at the size of them compared to the size of us" he told us. But we could see he was angry and agreed to await his review of the various options before the campaign took any further steps. It was nonetheless worrying to hear a...
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