Chilcot report on intelligence failings by the UK government

Excerpts from the Chilcot Inquiry on the intelligence failings that lead up to the Iraq War:

“The statements prepared for, and used by, the UK government in public from late 2001 onwards conveyed more certainty that the JIC Assessments about Iraq’s proscribed activities and the potential threat they posed”.

Chilcot found that the JIC did not make clear to Blair that intelligence had not proved “beyond reasonable doubt” that Saddam Hussein had continued to produce chemical or biological weapons or that efforts to develop nuclear weapons continued.

He concluded: “At no stage was the hypothesis that Iraq might no longer have chemical, biological or nuclear weapons or programs identified and examined by either the JIC or the policy community”