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.