Blair's Iraq evidence 'confusing'

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(We all know the Hutton Inquiry was fixed for Blair)


Dr Jones questioned Tony Blair's evidence to the Hutton Inquiry
Two former intelligence officers have cast doubts over Tony Blair's use of evidence in the run-up to war in Iraq.
The questions come as the government prepares for the Butler report into how intelligence on Iraq was handled.

Dr Brian Jones, a retired top Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) official, told BBC's Panorama he was "confused" by Mr Blair's evidence in the Hutton Inquiry.

John Morrison, the former deputy chief of DIS, said Mr Blair's claims on Iraqi WMD were met by disbelief in Whitehall. No-one on my staff had any visibility of large quantities of intelligence of that sort. Dr Jones said he "couldn't relate" to the prime minister's evidence to Lord Hutton on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Mr Blair told the inquiry there was "a tremendous amount of information and evidence coming across my desk as to the WMD and programmes associated with it that Saddam had".

But Dr Jones, a critic of the government's Iraq dossier, told Panorama: "Certainly no-one on my staff had any visibility of large quantities of intelligence of that sort."



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3883393.stm

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1. see also:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x677719