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...official: no one in Tony Blair's government "sexed up" the dossier on Iraqi weapons, the charge that launched a thousand headlines and the nastiest crisis of his six years in office. That was the verdict of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, the cross-party watchdog cleared to see secrets and interrogate top spies. It found the dossier was entirely the product of the intelligence services, whose independence "had not been compromised in any way." But the British Prime Minister can't relax yet. The committee also said the dossier should have clarified that many of its judgments rested...
...noses greeted him when he arrived at the High Court in London to testify before the Hutton Inquiry into the apparent suicide of David Kelly--a government weapons expert and the source for a BBC report in May alleging that Blair's aides knowingly inserted false information into a dossier on Iraq's unconventional weapons. Blair gave a virtuoso performance, saying he would have had to quit if the report had been proved true. Still, a CNN/TIME poll found that only 6% of the British public today consider his government a more trustworthy source than the BBC for facts about...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Blair's communications director He claimed to have "no input, output, influence ... whatsoever" over the claim in the government's September dossier that Iraq could use chemical weapons within 45 minutes. But Downing St. memos show he sought wording changes on this topic. And questions remain about his role in the decision to release Kelly's name...
ANDREW GILLIGAN BBC correspondent He claimed that Kelly, in their May 22 meeting, immediately volunteered Campbell as the dark force behind "sexing up" the dossier. But Olivia Bosch, a friend of Kelly's, said Kelly had told her he did no such thing, and that Gilligan had played a "name game" trying to get him to confirm various people...
JOHN SCARLETT Head of the Joint Intelligence Committee He said he was unaware of any dissent among intelligence analysts about the dossier. But Brian Jones, a retired analyst, said complaints were rife, and that the dossier was "over-egged." Another serving analyst, testifying by audio as "Mr. A," agreed...