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  • Blair on Iraq Rack as Spy Chief Breaks Cover

    09/15/2003 3:43:02 PM PDT · by Brian S · 36 replies · 234+ views
    Reuters ^ | 09-15-03
    Mon September 15, 2003 05:00 PM ET By Dominic Evans LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's secretive intelligence chief conceded Monday that criticism of a dossier setting out Prime Minister Tony Blair's case for war with Iraq was valid because its most sensational warning was "misinterpreted." Breaking with precedent, MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove testified via audio-link to the judicial inquiry into the suicide of a weapons expert, which has raised questions about Blair's reasons for war and sent his trust ratings plunging. Dearlove said he stood by the intelligence in the September 2002 dossier but added that a contentious assertion that...