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Clare Short

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war

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Clare Short believes the lawyer ended the case because defending it would have required challenging the law, which might have exposed private advice given by someone involved. She implies that this advice seemed suspicious, especially in how the person referred to the war.

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