WMD expert reopens row about 'sexed-up' dossier

[cal04]

A letter by the head of MI6 allegedly seeking to "sex up" a dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction should be released under the Freedom Of Information Act, the former head of the MoD intelligence branch said last night.

Brian Jones, ex-head of the Defence Intelligence Staff, spoke out after Rod Barton, an Australian member of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), reopened the dispute over the "sexing up" of the government dossier on WMD that led to the suicide of David Kelly, another weapons specialist.

The Foreign Office denied Dr Barton's claims and said that they had been investigated by two public inquiries and had been found to be untrue. Dr Jones said: "I know Rod Barton well and he is a very sound guy and a very honourable man."He said Dr Barton resigned from the ISG after the letter from Mr Scarlett. "What he says is worth listening to and worth thinking about. It does raise the question of what was in the letter that Scarlett wrote."

The Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, said ministers were wrong to withhold the information. But the Foreign Office rejected her findings, saying it could prevent frank discussion of such matters in the future. Lord Lester of Herne Hill, the Liberal Democrat peer, who complained to Ms Abraham, said: "It is deplorable that the Government refuses to comply with the Parliamentary Ombuds man's recommendation.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=611494

[KingoftheJungle]

1. David Kelly did not commit suicide. He was murdered, pure and simple

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00028.htm

[libodem]

2. prevent frank discussion

the thought police aren't far behind

[autorank]

3. drip, drip, drip...Blair and Labour will go down for their crimes.

It is just amazing to watch Labour and Blair engage in their delusional water treading exercise. The truth will out! And they're going down.

[emad]

4. WMD expert reopens row about 'sexed-up' dossier

The Independent
By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
16 February 2005


A letter by the head of MI6 allegedly seeking to "sex up" a dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction should be released under the Freedom Of Information Act, the former head of the MoD intelligence branch said last night.

Brian Jones, ex-head of the Defence Intelligence Staff, spoke out after Rod Barton, an Australian member of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), reopened the dispute over the "sexing up" of the government dossier on WMD that led to the suicide of David Kelly, another weapons specialist.

Dr Barton, a microbiologist who worked for Australian intelligence for more than 20 years, said John Scarlett, then head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, asked for "new elements" to be included in a draft report he was producing on the WMD in Iraq. The head of the ISG, Charles Duelfer, refused.

Dr Barton told Australia's ABC TV: "Both Washington and London wanted other things put in to make it - I can only use these words - to make it sexier.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=611494

[bpilgrim]

5. got damn it, anybody but a deadbody better bring this TRUTH back up!

fuck that... may get to rewrite history 50 years from now but we mustn't let these shapeshifters distort current events... we ain't that stupid!

that the corporate media get away with scandal after scandal is NUTTS!

and they wonder why they have 0 cred :crazy:

M$MW = MAIN STREAM MEDIA WHORES!

peace

[skeeters]

6. Yet Another Failure

You all got it. The media is controlled by the White House and Pentagon. I have tons of stories about the CIA telling Bush he is nuts about his WMD's claims. Now you would think a real media would at least report that. Not bloody likely. And I'm sure those that were spreading these truths are now out of work, or in one of our torture chambers.


BTW, Chimp. No. Korea is in the axis of evil and does have WMD's.

Why no war? I thought your job was to keep America safe.

Yeah, right.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi skeeters!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RawMaterials]

8. welcome to DU Skeeters

:hi: :toast: :beer:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. We'll never read this story here

We all know it's true, but the mush-for-balls US press won't touch it.