Team Sky's Dave Brailsford angered by UCI plan to offer amnesty to doping whistle-blowers There is this idea that if everyone tells the truth it will make it all better. No it won't," Brailsford, the Team Sky principal, said. Telling the truth doesn't make it better. It's about acting on the information that you find and doing something tangible with that information to make sure it doesn't happen in the future. This idea of everyone telling the truth and it all goes into a pot, is it going to change anything? If it is about trying to identify all the individuals who were involved only to say, "OK you're off the hook," then what have you learned?" The independent inquiry resisted attempts to have it disbanded yesterday during what was at times a tetchy preliminary hearing at the Law Society in London. The inquiry's chairman, Sir Philip Otton, accused the UCI of wanting a truth and reconciliation process to "kick into the long grass" the inquiry set up to examine allegations that Armstrong bribed the governing body to hush up his failed dope tests. It was clear that the panel members, which included Baroness Grey-Thompson and Malcolm Holmes QC, felt the UCI was being deliberately unhelpful. However, Pat McQuaid, the UCI chairman, said his organisation was responding to opinion within the sport, and those expressed by anti-doping bodies. We listened carefully to the views of Wada, Usada and cycling stakeholders and decided a truth and reconciliation process is the best way of examining and approaching what happened in the past so cycling can move forward. I don't want a cloud hanging over our sport. However, McQuaid admitted such a process would be "very expensive." UCI and Wada will hold talks about the proposed commission this weekend though sources have indicated there is a long way to go before it could happen. Wada believes the process could be part of the independent inquiry and that it should give potential whistle-blowers a three-week window to come forward, which is in keeping with the framework put forward by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. The independent inquiry has been adjourned until next Thursday. The panel also called for an amnesty because it felt only that would persuade witnesses to come forward. However, the UCI argues that the panel has now exceeded its terms of reference and will not meet its June deadline as a truth and reconciliation process could "take up to two years." It emerged yesterday that the UCI had not passed on any documents to the panel but would send 16 files of evidence over the weekend. "We're not trying to kill this inquiry, we set you up," Ian Mill QC, acting for the UCI, said. Meanwhile, Brailsford revealed that he regretted employing the former Team Sky doctor who is involved in a doping investigation. The Belgian Cycling Federation is interviewing Geert Leinders as part of its doping inquiry. Brailsford said that he would not have hired Leinders had he the slightest suspicion about him. "Hindsight is a brilliant thing," Brailsford said. Had we known then what we know now, we wouldn't have touched the guy. We went through what we thought were the right procedures, we interviewed the guy.