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In addition, it's not just plants that benefit from JIC's hothouse atmosphere.
The report concludes that the process of seeking the JIC's views, through Scarlett on the text of the dossier, "shows that No 10 expected the JIC to raise any concerns it had".
Mr Campbell told the JIC's chairman, John Scarlett, to tone down his writing: "the drier the better", he advised.
It also says that the JIC implied greater knowledge than it had of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons.The committee concludes: "The JIC's independence and impartiality has not been compromised in any way".
The JIC's customers will be alerted if the committee's members have failed to reach the consensus for which they traditionally strive.How much of the workings of the new secret state will reach Parliament, press and public?
In his evidence to Lord Hutton's inquiry, the JIC's chairman, John Scarlett, revealed that the threat of rapid chemical or biological attack related not to long-range missiles but "battlefield mortar shells or small-calibre weaponry".
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In a perverse example of this, an original statement that the JIC had little information about Iraq's WMD programmes since 1998, was rewritten to suggest that the resulting uncertainty was itself a cause for suspicion.
It is an appendix to the letter from Jon Day, the JIC chairman, to David Cameron that the government has just released and it is headed "JIC assessment of 27 August on Reported Chemical Weapons use in Damascus".
Indeed, other JIC files have been released to the National Archives, and the judge should be careful of making the JIC more secretive than it already is.
Their discomfort was sharpened by the government's publication of a second dossier, neither written nor authorised by the JIC, just before the outbreak of war.
Though Tony Blair's senior aides worked closely on the dossier's presentation, the content and final wording was controlled by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), an inter-departmental (and thus apolitical) body.
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