The law chief who bowed to Blair.

Discusses how, on the eve of the Iraq invasion, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush pressured Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, to change his mind on the legality of the war. Background on Goldsmith, who shifted his position twice; Reluctance of Goldsmith to speak about the affair before the Butler inquiry; Goldsmith's opposition to sanctioning military action with United Nations approval; Blair's request that Goldsmith not declare his position formally; How Goldsmith's final document was not the same as his formal legal advice to Blair.