tucumseh:
So, it should be asked why, given the above, H-C didn't go back further than 1999 - especially as the evidence presented to him was irrefutable. One answer - it protected certain current serving staffs.
I think we all know the answer to your, no doubt rhetorical, question, tuc. Now, as you have mentioned in a previous post, the challenge to reveal the real truth behind this scandal has passed to the RAF Provost Marshal. It is he who has been tasked to investigate matters arising from the Nimrod Review. In particular he, or a subordinate, will be interviewing the two officers named in the report. Let us hope that what the MOD has done, to limit the extent of the suborning of the UK Military Airworthiness Regulations being revealed, will be discovered by the RAF Provost Branch as a result of their enquiries. A good copper follows the evidence wherever, or to whoever, it leads. Let us all pray for good coppers!