Prime Minister Tony Blair's office, trying to defuse a row over Iraq a week before Britain's general election, said Thursday that the attorney general's advice on the legality of the U.S.-led war will be published in full. The announcement came after a TV channel said it had obtained a leaked copy of a memo sent to Blair from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith in which he warned the invasion could be deemed illegal without a second U.N. Security Council resolution specifically authorizing military action. The leaked document again thrust the ferocious debate about the U.S.-led invasion and Blair's integrity to the forefront of the election campaign. Blair insisted he did not lie about the legal case for war in Iraq, but the opposition Conservative Party said the leaked document proved he did. The Associated Press quoted Blair's Downing Street office as saying that the full text of the memo would be released later Thursday, something Blair had adamantly refused to do in the past. "You have probably got it all anyway. I see no reason not to publish it," Blair told reporters.
