The Iraq Dossier Saga

Was it Campbell?

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

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Iraq dossier - watchdog ruling

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

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The woman who nearly stopped the war

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

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It's official: Blair's government set out to deceive us about Iraq

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The truth is more tawdry than the lies

The so-called "Williams draft" of the notorious Iraq weapons dossier confirms at last that government spin was at the heart of the process

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Iraq, Israel and WMD dossier

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

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Secret Iraq dossier published

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

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How the war was spun

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

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'Release dossier', ministry told

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

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

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