The Iraq Dossier Saga
In The Iraq Dossier Saga
Was it Campbell?
- By Chris Ames
- 07 May 2008
Tony Blair's former chief of spin, Alastair Campbell, may after all have sexed-up the notorious 45 minutes WMD claim when the case for invading Iraq was being made
Iraq dossier - watchdog ruling
- By Chris Ames
- 24 April 2008
The government is attacked as "dodgy" after a ruling that criticises the way in which author of the September 2002 Iraq dossier has effectively been allowed anonymity
The woman who nearly stopped the war
- By Martin Bright
- 19 March 2008
Five years ago, Katharine Gun, a translator at GCHQ, learned something so outrageous that she sacrificed her career to tell the truth. Martin Bright on a brave deed that should not be forgotten
The truth is more tawdry than the lies
- By Martin Bright
- 21 February 2008
The so-called "Williams draft" of the notorious Iraq weapons dossier confirms at last that government spin was at the heart of the process
Iraq, Israel and WMD dossier
- By Chris Ames
- 21 February 2008
A scribbled reference to Israel in the margin of a withheld draft of the Iraq dossier is revealed. Chris Ames who has doggedly pursued the government on the issue responds
Secret Iraq dossier published
- By Chris Ames
- 18 February 2008
The government has been forced to publish the secret first draft of the Iraq WMD dossier written by a Foreign Office spin doctor, reports Chris Ames
How the war was spun
- By Chris Ames
- 31 January 2008
The Foreign Office has been ordered to release an early secret draft of the WMD dossier. Chris Ames says it will reveal a deliberate attempt to exaggerate the danger
'Release dossier', ministry told
- By Chris Ames
- 23 January 2008
Chris Ames explains the significance of the decision to force the Foreign Office to release the secret draft of the Iraq WMD dossier
Spin doctors and the Iraq war
- By Chris Ames
- 03 December 2007
A Tory MP challenges the government to come clean about the role spin doctors played in sexing-up the case for war, writes Chris Ames
Also in The Iraq Dossier Saga
Giving nothing away
- By Chris Ames
- 01 November 2007
This government has routinely flouted its own freedom of information legislation
Campbell’s compelling nuclear secret
- By Martin Bright and Chris Ames
- 12 July 2007
Hidden away in the diaries of Blair's right-hand man is a revealing admission a key components of the controversial Iraq War dossier was spun out of all recognition.
