MI6 boss 'tried to sex up' Iraq study

[lovuian]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1484286,00.html

MI6 boss 'tried to sex up' Iraq study

Antony Barnett, public affairs editor
Sunday May 15, 2005
The Observer

Sir John Scarlett, head of MI6, has been accused of trying 'to sex up' a report by the Iraq Survey Group, the body charged with finding weapons of mass destruction after Saddam Hussein was toppled.
In an exclusive interview, Dr Rod Barton, a former senior weapons inspector in Iraq, has revealed extraordinary details of how Scarlett and a top Ministry of Defence official intervened in a report by the ISG early last year.

Barton, who has worked for Australian intelligence for more than 20 years, was a special adviser to the ISG in 2004 as it prepared to report that they had found no WMD or any programmes to build them. Such a report would have been politically damaging in London in the aftermath of the David Kelly affair.

Speaking from Canberra, Barton describes how in January last year he received a visit in Baghdad from Martin Howard, deputy chief of defence intelligence at the MoD. Howard had been criticised for helping to 'out' Kelly as the source of Andrew Gilligan's BBC story alleging Downing Street had 'sexed up' the September dossier on Iraq's WMD.

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[Carolab]

1. This statement bugs me.

Barton added: 'The US has finally come to terms with the fact they got it dead wrong. The UK is lagging far behind. They still haven't come to terms with it.'

They didn't GET it wrong, buddy. THEY LIED.

[lovuian]

2. Bingo!!! The US has come to terms with it cause they Lied!!!

Americans and Congress and the Media seem to have come with terms that Bush Lied and its OK!!!

We never got an apology for lying!!!

[MisterP]

3. we already knew that: their self-absolution didn't fool me, and this

is further clinching damnation.

[emad]

4. Each time I see any reference to this red asshole....

"Captain" Scarlett and the Mysterons at Vauxhall Bridge spooks' HQ have lost the plot.

The have done so many deals with cold-war KGB plants, double-agents and organised crime cartels that this treachous little pederast who was responsible for the JIC intelligence report into WMD - and the infamous ytellowcake uranium crap - has managed to wrom his way into the top spooks' job despite a criminal background that would make Robert Maxwell look like a male version of Mother Teresa..........

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7. Was it Lord Hutton that had the David Kelly case?

[Englander]

9. Yes.

Here's a section from the Guardian on the Hutton Report.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/hutton/0,13822,1021216,00.html

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10. Thank you for the information and the links.

n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. Kick and recommended!

:kick:

[IChing]

6. More damning evidence

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from the article:

"According to Barton, these were based on old evidence that had been investigated and shown to be false. It is understood to include suggestions that Saddam was developing a smallpox weapon and using research to create a nuclear programme."

[ooglymoogly]

8. got it wrong my ass

they were the wrong...they manufactured it from whole cloth...and their enablers the m media propagated it...treason plain and simple

[ellenfl]

11. this is just an attempt to show that the u.s. DIDN'T KNOW

there were no wmds and therefore the downing street memo is wrong. watch is this doesn't play that way.

ellen fl

[fedsron2us]

12. Scarlett was not head of MI6 when he sexed up the WMD report

He got that job as a reward for protecting Blair at the Hutton inquiry.

[emad]

14. He was merely head of the Joint Intelligence Committee on

Defence and a jogging partner of Alistair Campbell - what a variety act duo those two have made.....

[daleo]

13. Here's hoping nobody commits suicide next to a tree. n/t