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Re: [Update] Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour Leadership
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Originally Posted by ianch99
Does the Leader of the Opposition have access to the MI5 files supporting proposed foreign conflicts?
I have this mental image of Tony receiving the "Saddam" file from MI5, getting out his big red pen and changing various entries. He then gives it to Leader of the Opposition saying " Look! He is a really bad man, honest! Just sign .. here .. here .. and .. here"  |
Meanwhile, back in reality....
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/j...ossier-inquiry
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In a keynote speech to the UN on 12 September 2002, Bush claimed: "Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year." This contradicted the first draft of the British dossier, drawn up two days earlier, which stated that it would take "at least two years" for Iraq to get the bomb.
The Cabinet Office has disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act that those who drafted the dossier were immediately asked to compare British claims against the US president's speech. The next day the dossier's timescale was halved to claim Iraq could get the bomb in a year.....
.....A new draft of the British weapons dossier virtually eliminated the difference between the US and UK positions. When Blair presented the dossier to parliament 11 days later, he said that Iraq might get the bomb in "a year or two".
The JIC, which prepares formal intelligence assessments, considered the scenario so unlikely that it did not estimate how long it might take.
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They didn't use a big red pen, they just rewrote it - but I'm sure you knew that aleady....
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