An Open Letter of Congratulations to Carter-Ruck and Trafigura

to
adam.tudor@carter-ruck.com,
isabel.hudson@carter-ruck.com,
ncameron@bell-pottinger.co.uk,
media@trafigura.com,
claude.dauphin@trafigura.com

date
13 October 2009 10:16

subject
Trafigura

Adam, Isabel,
You have certainly provided you client Trafigura with such excellent advice.  I am sure you must both take great professional pride in your jobs and enhance your firm’s reputation suppressing reports like this:
http://88.80.16.63/leak/waterson-toxicwaste-ivorycoast-é2009.pdf
Leading directly to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafigura
and this:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5417651/british-press-banned-from-reporting-parliament-seriously.thtml
and this:
http://order-order.com/2009/10/12/guardian-gagged-from-reporting-parliament/
and this:
http://richardwilsonauthor.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/the-parliamentary-question-carter-ruck-and-trafigura-dont-want-you-to-see/
and this:
http://www.northumbrian.org.uk/2009/10/the-trafigura-question-carterruck-dont-want-you-to-see/
and this:
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44460&c=1
as well as a guaranteed front-page in the Guardian and other [...]

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