A4 U.S. Intelligence Is Reassessed A broad United States government reappraisal of intelligence about illicit weapons programs around the world is prompting a softening of some earlier judgments about foreign arsenals, according to several American officials.
While the hearings have yet to establish how much government manipulation of intelligence information, if any, went on last September, they have exposed in-fighting and 11th-hour disagreements between various agencies and among Mr. Blair's closest aides.
"The Government of Iraq intelligence services and security forces supported by U.S. intelligence and special operations forces have over the last several months continued to degrade A.Q.I.
The events recalled in some ways earlier turmoil at the BBC after the 2003 invasion of Iraq when a BBC reporter accused the government of embellishing intelligence information about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
A6 British Government Cleared A British Parliamentary committee cleared the government of falsifying intelligence findings but questioned the claim that Iraq could deploy unconventional weapons in 45 minutes and found fault with the portrayed threat to Britain.
A parliamentary committee today cleared Prime Minister Tony Blair's government of falsifying intelligence findings but questioned its attention-getting claim that Iraq could deploy unconventional weapons in 45 minutes and faulted its portrayal of Iraq as a threat to Britain.
Lawyers who reviewed the program, officials said, concluded that AT&T's partial masking of American phone numbers satisfied those restrictions, citing a statutory exception to data privacy laws covering "the acquisition by the United States government of foreign intelligence information from international or foreign communications".
The opening day was bad for the government, confirming, for the first time, that the intelligence services did have doubts about the government's use of intelligence in the run up to war.
Dr. Kelly was drawn into the public storm over the government's use of intelligence after he was identified as the possible source of a damning BBC report in late May that first gave rise to suspicions of government manipulation of intelligence.
Whitehall sources insist that Sir Richard's departure has nothing to do with the row over the government's use of intelligence.
