The Secret Downing Street "Dossier" to be released Monday (Feb 18)

[jtrockville]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/17/iraq.iraq

The secret first draft of the notorious Iraq dossier that helped to take Britain to war is expected to be released tomorrow, in a victory for freedom of information campaigners.

The early version written by John Williams, then director of communications at the Foreign Office, has been the subject of a three-year legal wrangle amid hopes that it could reveal whether the supposedly intelligence-led dossier was actually based on a press officer's script - and whether it was subsequently 'sexed up' by Alastair Campbell.

The draft is understood not to contain the infamous claim that Saddam Hussein could launch a strike with 'weapons of mass destruction' within 45 minutes, a claim that was central to the final 'dodgy dossier'.

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[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Kick and nominated

I get the feeling Tony will be prosecuted one day soon.
He also has the BAE affair.

[Tom Joad]

yay... let's kick this to the top. we need ample coverage of this

[kentuck]

2. Finally...

What is the DSM?

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Downing Street Memo

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

[lligrd]

4. K & R nt

[Jack Bone]

5. K&R

[chknltl]

6. kicked n/t

[gateley]

7. K&R nt

[jtrockville]

8. It's been released:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2883883