Major-General Laurie refers to "the direction and pressure being applied to the JIC and its drafters".
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".
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.
After leaving Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1970 with a first-class degree in modern history, Mr Scarlett spent the next 30 years in MI6, including a stint as head of its Moscow station, before joining the JIC in September 2001, just as the al-Qaida attacks on the US were to place western intelligence agencies under unprecedented public gaze.
JIC is home to the UK wheat germ plasm collection, and Moore describes it as "the major centre for wheat genetics in the UK".
In its first year of life, it analysed and assessed some 60,000 items of intelligence.Roughly speaking, the JTAC now concentrates on what al-Qaeda and its penumbral groups are doing, while the JIC works on the implications of this for the wider world.
It simply should not have been there - neither in the proper JIC assessment nor in the dossier.
For example, why was it not made clear in both secret and public assessments that senior JIC members believed the 45-minute intelligence referred to battlefield weapons?
The Government has also provided the Commons with evidence compiled by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), which says a chemical weapons attack did occur in Damascus last week and that it is "highly likely" that Bashar Assad's regime was responsible.
"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.
