I am publishing the evidence (pdf) of the Cabinet Office's Chris Wright in the recently concluded Information Tribunal case (pdf) around the authorship of the dossier's executive summary at the time that it was seriously sexed-up. Wright admitted that changes to the summary - including some of the most controversial and bitterly disputed - may have been “made following oral comments” from the “communications professionals who were working on the dossier from a presentational point of view”.

So it may, after all, have been Alastair Campbell who sexed-up the 45 minutes claim to be a "judgement" of the Joint Intelligence Committee. When this change was made, the Defence Intelligence Staff objected very strongly, as well as objecting to another new "judgement" which claimed that Iraq was continuing to produce chemical and biological agents. Campbell is implicated in that bit of sexing-up, having discussed the presentation of the claim with Sir Richard Dearlove, head of MI6/SIS. He then discussed the dossier several times with both Joint Intelligence Committee chairman John Scarlett and Scarlett's deputy Julian Miller over the next few days.

I've written a piece on this for the New Statesman online today.