'Sir' John Sawers went from foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair...to Britain's first special representative in post-invasion Iraq...to chief of MI6...to being knighted by the 'Queen'...to non-executive director of BP.

This is the swamp. And it pays very well.

BP returned to Iraq in 2009 after a 35-year absence and was awarded a significant interest in the country’s largest oil field near British-occupied Basra.

Since then it has extracted Iraqi oil worth £15 billion.

Read on:
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