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Some have taken that as evidence of the pressure that Downing Street was exerting to make the dossier more dramatic.
He was told to make the dossier anyway, and he did, and it became known in the department as the Binder.
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Mr. Straw made the dossier public at a breakfast meeting of the Atlantic Partnership, a group that aims to improve relations between Europe and North America.
Mr Blair quoted Lord Hutton as saying that No 10's need for a powerful dossier might have "subconsciously influenced... members of the JIC to make the wording of the dossier somewhat stronger".
The report said the claim should not have been made in the dossier and "led to suspicions that it had been included because of its eye-catching character".
Essentially, allegations were made that the dossier that took Britain to war in Iraq was sexed-up to make an exaggerated case, against the wishes of the intelligence community.
He dismissed reservations inside the intelligence agencies, notably the defence intelligence staff close to Kelly (who himself questioned claims made in the dossier) and even inside his own former agency - MI6 - to which he is to return as its head, or "C" for Chief, as the head of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service is called.
Although the deal fell through, the intelligence community has been able to verify at least some of the claims Steele made in the dossier, which Trump has called "phony stuff".
If it does indeed exist, the cell tower evidence would support a major claim made in the dossier: that Cohen met with representatives of the Russian government during that time frame to discuss the Trump campaign and payments to hackers who were targeting Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Campbell denied to Chilcot that the purpose of the September 2002 dossier was "to make the case for war".
Frost has long questioned the official explanation for the death of David Kelly, who was found dead in woods near his Oxfordshire home in 2003, shortly after being exposed as the source of a BBC claim that Tony Blair's Labour government had "sexed up" a dossier that helped make the case for war in Iraq.
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