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In order to avoid the risk of blurring advocacy with intelligence assessment, future dossiers God forbid that there should ever be any ought clearly to be the work of the government and not the JIC.
Files down to the late 1960s are now public, albeit with notable omissions (for example, the records, of the intelligence and counter-intelligence services themselves).From this material, Sir Percy Cradock, who chaired the JIC from 1985 to 1992, has compiled both its history and an insider's view of major post-war crises.
The material handed to Mr Cameron by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) as ammunition for his Commons speech was feeble compared with the damning evidence forcefully deployed by John Kerry, America's secretary of state, little more than 24 hours later.
The first was that he had "sexed up" a long and detailed report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that had been compiled by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and, in a break with precedent, published last September.
Downing Street (that is to say, Mr Campbell) even let it be known a few weeks ago that it had "expressed regret" to the head of the JIC over what had happened.
"The JIC itself should have made that position clear because of its ownership of the dossier, which was intended to inform a highly controversial policy debate, carried with it the responsibility to ensure that the JIC's integrity was protected," the Chilcot report says.
The appearance by Sir John Scarlett, formerly chairman of the joint intelligence committee (JIC) and more recently chief of MI6, may be the only one by a senior official who was directly involved with the intelligence analysis that underpinned the government's case for war.
1.17pm BST Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) Conservative MP Dr Julian Lewis: "The JIC summary is inconclusive" #Syria #wato August 29 , 20131.04pm BST Government's assessment on the legality of attacking Syria And here's the key extract from the government's statement about the legal position (pdf).It's headlined "Chemical Weapons Use by Syrian Regime - UK Government Legal Position".
If that happens again during this period, we will not get to the JIC".
The second document, commissioned from the JIC by the Ministry of Defence, contained what Gardner described as a "top secret and in some cases damning" assessment of Iraq's security forces.
For over 60 years the JIC has provided regular assessments to successive Prime Ministers and senior colleagues on a wide range of foreign policy and international security issues.
