Intelligence bombshell goes off under Blair.

[JohnyCanuck]

Intelligence chief claims they were overruled on dossier.

Their's a thread on this in LBN. Just thought I would mention it here in case you haven't seen it yet.

The intelligence official whose revelations stunned the Hutton inquiry into the death of government scientist David Kelly has suggested that not a single defence intelligence expert backed Tony Blair's most contentious claims on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

As Mr Blair yesterday set up an inquiry into intelligence failures before the war, Brian Jones, the former leading expert on WMD in the Ministry of Defence, declared that Downing Street's dossier, a key plank in convincing the public of the case for war, was "misleading" about Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological capability.

Writing in today's Independent, Dr Jones, who was head of the nuclear, chemical and biological branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff until he retired last year, reveals that the experts failed in their efforts to have their views reflected.

Here's the LBN thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=345366