Sentence examples for the second dossier from inspiring English sources

The second dossier (or "briefing note", as the government now calls it) that had been partially plagiarised from an academic thesis was "almost wholly counter-productive".

Mr Campbell sought - and found - a piece of suspect journalism to divert fire from his own discreditable role in the second dossier.

The second dossier is borne out of claims made on a private online forum that that police operations against VIP paedophiles had been shut down just as they had begun to uncover child sex abuse by prominent people.

Officials hope that admitting errors over the second dossier will strengthen their case on the first dossier, published last September which has been the subject of allegations that it was 'sexed up' to make a stronger case for war.

Number 10 officials now admit that the second dossier, which was largely culled from a 13-year-old thesis by a Californian PhD student, is damaging the Government's case for war against Iraq.

Senior Whitehall sources told the Observer that the officials who will be called before the Intelligence and Security Committee inquiry into the weapons issue will say that the second dossier on Saddam's history of deception undermined public trust in government information.

Mr. Cook recalled that the first dossier as very thin.

But it is a rather different claim to the blood-curdling picture painted in the first dossier.

It will say that every fact that appeared in the first dossier also appeared in the JIC assessment.

While on Tuesday he had criticized as an "embarrassment" the February dossier compiled by Mr. Campbell -- one now known as the dodgy dossier for its mingling of a plagiarized scholarly article with real intelligence -- today he came to the communications director's defense over the first dossier.

Although officials will admit that there are some 'serious questions' about claims in the first dossier that Saddam was trying to procure nuclear material from Niger - the claims were based on crudely forged documents - they will say that Number 10 relied on security analysis.