A further draft of the dossier was sent to Mr Campbell and JIC members on September 19.
It was, in fact, the first full draft of the dossier.
He also said that such comments were "office chatter" and based on earlier drafts of the dossier.
The information commissioner revealed that John Scarlett, former Joint Intelligence Committee JICchairmanmandanownow head of MI6, had asked Williams to produce what was the first full draft of the dossier.
Early drafts of the dossier did not include any estimated timescale for Iraq's development of a nuclear weapon if it obtained fissile material from abroad.
But, worse, Campbell was being quizzed about an email in which Pruce described Scarlett's supposed "first draft" of the dossier as "this latest draft", something that should have a whole belfry of alarm bells.
Scarlett's memo was sent to Sir David Manning, Blair's chief foreign policy adviser, in March 2002 after an early draft of the dossier had been drawn up covering four countries with "WMD programmes of concern": Iraq, Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Mr. Campbell said he did not know the origin or sourcing of the claim about quick launching, which was included in a draft of the dossier before its publication on Sept. 24.
The next day, September 10th, Scarlett circulated a new draft of the dossier, which drew on intelligence that MI6, the spying agency that Ian Fleming and John le Carré immortalized, had picked up the previous month from a confidential source inside Iraq.
He appeared before the inquiry and entirely omitted to mention that he had written the first full draft of the dossier, in spite of what Foreign Office minister Kim Howells told the House of Commons on Tuesday.
