davaar lad
By this I mean that Wratten and co. must have known that the verdict was wrong, if they were blind to that then surely it will have been clear to them that it would be controversial (understatement)
I don't think they imagined for one moment how controversial this would become.
Please remember, this was I believe, the very first BOI report that was released after John Major's government introduced 'Freedom of Information'. What a shock it must have been to them to see the amount of information the MOD were OBLIGED to release under the act.
I recall very well indeed how extremely unhappy, and evasive, MOD were!
They never expected anything more than a sanitised, classified, and abbreviated report to be released to anyone. That was the way it had always been. They certainly would not have suspected their deliberations would be repeated (and rejected!) under a Judge in a Fatal Accident Inquiry.
I am sure they never dreamed their perverse judgement could possibly be even examined, never mind challenged. Such was their arrogance in their ivory tower.
It's time.