Brian Jones, formerly of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) told the Hutton Inquiry that people within the DIS thought the dossier had been over-egged. In this week's New Statesman, he has a piece marking the fifth anniversary of the death of Dr David Kelly, who told Andrew Gilligan that the dossier had been "sexed-up". Spot the difference Lord Hutton.

Jones argues that Whitehall has learned little from the dossier debacle and has failed to implement Butler's recommendations:

Thus, five years after the tragic death of David Kelly, little has changed. Both components of Whitehall, political and official, have ducked all criticism, appearing to have learnt little from the Iraq experience. Something similar could all too easily happen again.

On Comment is Free yesterday, Inayat Bunglawala suggests that the same thing is happening again over Iran, with SIS/MI6 (Chief: John Scarlett) feeding dodging nuclear claims to Telegraph journalist Con Coughlin.

I get a mention in Jones' piece. Co-indidentally, it's also five years since the New Statesman published my first piece on the dossier: The difference a day made.

The Cabinet Office has responded to my latest Freedom of Information Act request with a part-denial, part-refusal.

Cabinet Office Freedom of Information request #13 sought to establish "what assessment Sir Gus O'Donnell's (approx June 2007) review of intelligence made regarding the influence of "communications professionals", special advisers and politicians on the September 2002 Iraq dossier."

The answer apparently is nothing, although the Cabinet Office is refusing to release Sir Gus' findings. It is claiming that they are exempt under Section 35 of the FOI Act (formulation of government policy). I have requested an internal review, pointing out that Sir Gus' office told me that his

"role was to provide advice to the Prime Minister on the best way of organising the Government machine and this is what he did".

This is not the same as formulation of policy.