17/01/2007 00:00
by RAY FLEMING
THE newly-knighted John Scarlett is again at the centre of controversy over the validity of claims made by the government about intelligence information. In 2002 when head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Mr Scarlett, as he then was, found himself involved in the alleged sexing-up of the Downing Street dossier on the threat from Sadam Hussein; he was persuaded to endorse what proved to be the false government claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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