"...without the hearings being used as a platform for political advantage."

I read reports that the Chilcot Committee "has decided to wait until after the election to hear from those Ministers who are currently serving in the roles about which the Committee wishes to question them." Apparently this is because

"The Committee believes that only after the General Election can these Ministers give their evidence fully without the hearings being used as a platform for political advantage."

I think that a very important point has been missed; by not calling serving Ministers political advantage is being conferred upon those serving Ministers.

In truth this matters very little for as I blogged back in July:

"The news that Sir John Chilcot has said that Tony Blair would be among those asked to give evidence and that he did not expect anyone to refuse does not fill me with great confidence. Unless Tony Blair and others are under oath, wired to a polygraph and given a sodium pentothal injection first, I will find it hard to believe their version of events. "

Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and others have lied to the Country more than once, why should we assume that they will not do so again?