Sir Richard Dearlove, former chief of MI6, and John Scarlett, head of the joint intelligence committee in the months before the invasion, are criticised. Sir John Scarlett, head of the joint intelligence committee in the months before the invasion, is criticised in the Chilcot report Times photographer Richard PohleBritain’s spy agencies bolstered Tony Blair’s desire to go to war in Iraq with “flawed intelligence”, the Chilcot report concludes. Both had an “ingrained belief” that Saddam had WMD stocks, the inquiry found, and no effort was made to… It paints a picture of intelligence chiefs who appeared all too eager to please the prime minister with information on Saddam Hussein’s access to weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which was discredited and withdrawn within two years.

Source: The Times July 06, 2016 23:03 UTC