What complete and utter rubbish, Kevin - As usual you are wriggling.

With regard to Gilligan's report there is absolutely no way those two phrases relate to different things. Gilligans report was based entirely on the 45 minute issue, in an attempt by that reporter to create a sensation where in fact no story existed.

And contrary to what you state regarding inaction on the part of Government. The Goverment made quite vigorous attempts to set the record straight, by asking the BBC to correct the mistake made by one of their reporters. It was the BBC's mistake - it was therefore up to them to correct it.

The intelligence was not over-emphasied, the document itself was unique, Sir John Scarlett explained very clearly in his evidence to the Hutton Inquiry how the JIC conducts its business. He also detailed the steps this dossier took through its drafting process to submission for final publication and issue.

In his evidence the 45 minute claim is discussed in detail. In this he described how the various constituent services reviewing the intelligence information viewed this piece of intelligence and how on THEIR recommendation the importance of that piece of intelligence was down-graded in the final submission - all of which was done before Alister Campbell sent his sixteen point fax (of which the 45 minute thing was Point 10.).

Did people involved, and by this I mean people within the security services, think that the wording should have been different? - Yes of course there were, some wanted it played down, others wanted its significance played up - nothing odd about that at all, it is very rare indeed to get 100% agreement between all parties on anything that involves analysis and evaluation - so what does that prove with regard to Gilligan's report? He certainly made no attempt to obtain a balanced view on the matter, which he should have done. Why? Because he already had his story written - and why should anyone spoil a good story by obscuring it and detracting from the point to be made with the facts.

The BBC reported last night that there have been three investigations into Government interference with regard to the language and content of the dossier. On each occasion the result has been the same, and on each occasion the conclusions reached by those investigating have been that there was no interference on the part of the British Government. Now, according to you (and presumably Gilligan) they are all wrong, MGOH relying on his own cynicism and Gilligan relying on what he "interpreted" from his interviews with Dr. David Kelly. On that latter point another BBC Reporter interviewed the same man and came away with quite a different story.

On that basis Gilligan presented a report that was nothing like the true picture - except of course to you Kevin.