New Iraq Documents Show How the British Public Was Duped on Iraq

New Iraq Documents Show How the British Public Was Duped on Iraq

Posted by Ian Dunt, Politics.co.uk at 11:25 AM on March 12, 2009.

New documents released under Freedom of Information legislation about how the Iraq dossier was compiled have today confirmed that the authors of the document were leaned on by Downing Street.

One memo to John Scarlett, copied to Alastair Campbell, specifically warns against too many caveats being included in the dossier, for fear of undermining the Government’s case.

Commenting, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary, Edward Davey said:

“This confirms the widely held suspicions that leading officials and political advisers close to Tony Blair were deliberately tweaking the presentation of the intelligence to bolster the case for war on Iraq.

SOURCE: ALTERNET