As has been stated in numerous places, the central point is that the Intelligence services in America and Britain were politicised -- they were asked to make the case for the war, not present unbiased information. This is why they stuffed rumours into the dossier to please their masters. Former heads of the JIC have stated that Sir John Scarlett went over the line. The problem here is that the citizenry were asked to support a pre-emptive war based on secret information of which only an edited fraction was made available: the fundamental entrusting is that the politicians are supposed to be asking the hard questions about this material, before they head off.

yours,

Peter T.