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  John Scarlett | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
But Mr Scarlett told the inquiry that the officers who drafted it had "no recollection of any particular reason" for the change and though there was "normal" discussion about the wording was not aware of any concern about the way in which the claim was being expressed.
He suggested that David Kelly, who Andrew Gilligan had implied believed the intelligence related to missile warheads, had probably not seen the original intelligence report and "was in a state of genuine confusion about what [it] actually said" since it referred to battlefield mortar shells or small calibre weaponry.
Mr Scarlett has, unsurprisingly, made no public appearances since the inquiry, although he was the (unnamed) target of a public rebuke from a former head of the JIC, Sir Roderic Braithwaite, who accused the JIC (along with MI5 and MI6) of having "stepped outside its traditional role" in making the case for war.
www.guardian.co.uk /hutton/keyplayers/story/0,13842,1031810,00.html   (808 words)

  
  John Scarlett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fluent in Russian, Scarlett was educated at Epsom College and Magdalen, Oxford where in 1971 he received a first class degree in History.
Scarlett gave evidence at the Hutton Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death.
It became clear that Scarlett had worked closely with Alastair Campbell, then the Prime Minister's Director of Communications and Strategy, on the controversial dossier, with Campbell making drafting suggestions which the inquiry found may have "subconsciously influenced" Scarlett and the JIC.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Scarlett   (513 words)

  
 A Native Talent - John Scarlett Davis (1804-1845) - Herefordshire Council
The son of a watchmaker, John Scarlett Davis was born in Leominster in 1804, at 2 High Street.
John’s artistic talent showed at an early age and self-portraits in the exhibition, show a boy and man observed with striking honesty.
John was schooled in Leominster and possibly had tuition from another notable artist, David Cox, who was resident in Hereford at the time.
www.herefordshire.gov.uk /council_gov_democracy/news/518.aspp   (298 words)

  
 C4 News - UK - Politics - Surprise elevation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
John Scarlet was cleared of any improper behaviour by Lord Hutton's inquiry, but the evidence from the inquiry's public evidence sessions left many thinking that he had betrayed MI6 by twisting its intelligence to make the government's case for war in the controversial dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
But once John Scarlet was put in charge of the project to publish intelligence on Iraq's weapons, some felt he accepted too many drafting changes from Number 10 staff and strengthened possibilities into certainties when the intelligence didn't support it.
Mr Scarlett helped out with a Ministry of Defence press releases at the height of the crisis over David Kelly, and even advised the Prime Minister on what David Kelly might say if he were to be called as a witness before a parliamentary committee.
www.channel4.com /news/2004/05/week_1/06_scarlett.html   (644 words)

  
 Rea Genealogy - pafg64 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
John Warren [Parents] was born in 1525 in Corlie, Nayland, suffolk, England.
John Scarlett [Parents] was born in 1525/1530 in Nayland, Suffolk, England.
John Scarlett was born in 1509 in Nayland, Suffolk, England.
members.cox.net /garyrea/pafg64.htm   (478 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Profile: John Scarlett
John Scarlett has been made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Year list - an honour given to members of the diplomatic service.
That was partly because of Mr Scarlett's defence of the government's Iraq weapons dossier during Lord Hutton's inquiry, and was not helped by the fact that Tony Blair's former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, apparently refers to Mr Scarlett as "mate".
Then, Mr Scarlett was chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, a body which includes all the chiefs of all the intelligence agencies, and was responsible for the September dossier.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/6217417.stm   (626 words)

  
 Kymm Coveney's Ancestry - Person Page 72
John Warren married Elizabeth Scarlett, daughter of John Scarlett and Margaret Martin, on 4 October 1584 at Nayland, Suffolk, England.
John Scarlett was born circa 1530 at Layham, Suffolk, England.
John Scarlett was buried on 11 November 1571 at Nayland, Suffolk, England.
members.fortunecity.com /dickcoveney/p72.htm   (1710 words)

  
 Downing Street Says...: John Scarlett
Asked what was being done to protect John Scarlett's security given the fact that his identity had been revealed during the Hutton Inquiry proceedings, the PMS said that it wasn't our policy to discuss the security arrangements for the Chief of the SIS, as to do so would completely defeat their purpose.
John Scarlett is as good an appointment as any; nobody sitting in that position will be able to prevent a government interested in misusing intelligence from doing so.
As this press report from America shows, the appointment of John Scarlett is being reported abroad as a tainted appointment because of his association with the drafting of the infamous dossier on Iraq's WMD presented to Parliament in September 2002: http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/breaking_news/8604010.htm
www.downingstreetsays.org /archives/000512.html   (847 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Blair's Intel Chief Sought 'Lies' on WMD
John Scarlett suggested that the Iraq Survey Group report should include claims about Saddam Hussein's supposed arsenals - which had already been proven unreliable, an unnamed member of the ISG was quoted as saying in The Mail on Sunday.
Mr Scarlett - who takes up his role as head of the secret intelligence service this week - sent a confidential email to the head of the ISG on 8 March with a list of 10 "golden nuggets" for possible inclusion in the report, it was claimed.
Among the "nuggets" supposedly put forward by Mr Scarlett were claims that Saddam had a secret smallpox programme, that Iraq had developed mobile chemical weapons laboratories and that it possessed or was building a "rail gun" as part of a nuclear project.
www.truthout.org /docs_04/080304J.shtml   (427 words)

  
 Pace Family History
Elbert Scarlett died in 1963 in Atchison, Kansas and was buried in the Mount Vernon Cemetery.
Elizabeth (Holland) Scarlett died in 1969 in Atchison, Kansas and was buried in the Mount Calvary Cemetery.
John was born on January 26, 1902 in Onaga, Kansas and is the son of John Peyrouse and Catherine (Condon) Peyrouse.
www.rcasey.net /pace/pacelish.htm   (4857 words)

  
 Telegraph | Opinion | John Scarlett has failed the intelligence test . . .
Mr Scarlett was exonerated of wrongdoing by Lord Hutton, but that alone should not suffice to damn him.
My own Whitehall acquaintances suggest that Mr Scarlett is not a bad man, but that he suffers from the familiar desire of ambitious civil servants to be as helpful as possible to their political masters.
Mr Scarlett can choose whether to be cast as a political stooge or as an incompetent, but he has shown himself to be one or the other.
www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/05/09/do0901.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/05/09/ixopinion.html   (853 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Politics - Backlash as Scarlett is named to head MI6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
John Scarlett’s appointment was seen in some quarters as a reward for standing by the government during the Hutton Inquiry.
It was Mr Scarlett’s high-profile defence of the Iraq dossier during the Hutton Inquiry which ensured that Downing Street was cleared of "sexing up" the document to strengthen the case for war.
JOHN Scarlett is a controversial choice as the new chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.
news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=519202004   (1174 words)

  
 Telegraph | Opinion | . . . but I say he's the best man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The furore that has greeted the appointment of John Scarlett as head of MI6 has astonished and depressed me. I know John to be a man of the highest personal integrity.
John Scarlett's long experience as an operational officer means that he is ideally qualified to be head of MI6.
John Scarlett honed those skills in his three years as Chairman of the JIC.
www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/05/09/do0902.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/05/09/ixopinion.html   (825 words)

  
 anestry - pafg13 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
John Scarlett [Parents] was born about 1555 in Nayland, Suffolk, England.
John married Mrs Emma Scarlett on 13 Sep 1574 in Nayland, Suffolk, England.
Mrs Emma Scarlett married John Scarlett on 13 Sep 1574 in Nayland, Suffolk, England.
members.aol.com /ssimonsays/pafg13.htm   (413 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Secret Intelligence Service Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
On 6 May 2004, it was announced that Sir Richard Dearlove was to be replaced as head of the SIS by John Scarlett, formerly chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
Scarlett is an unusually high profile appointment to the job.
Whilst he is a well known figure on television screens in the United Kingdom due to his evidence at the Hutton Inquiry, his predecessor Dearlove did not have any known photographs after a university graduation shot in the public domain.
www.ipedia.com /secret_intelligence_service.html   (914 words)

  
 Martin and Caroline Davis's families - Person Page 3
John Jeffries Davis appeared in the household of Jane Jeffries in the 1871 census at Bickmarsh Hall, Welford-on-Avon, Gloucestershire.
John Jeffries Davis was surety for the administration of the estate of Peter Davis on 19 January 1874 at District Probate Registry, Birmingham; PD, late of Bickmarsh Hall, Welford, Warwickshire, Farmer, administratrix: Jane Davis of BH, widow (sureties: Henry Jeffries, 23 High St. Guildford, wholesale druggist, and John Davis of Grimley, farmer).
John Jeffries Davis married Catherine ("Kate") Freer, daughter of Leacroft Freer and Eliza Powell Dudley, on 29 April 1874 at Ventnor, Isle Of Wight.
www.freerangephotography.co.uk /MMDgenealogy-p/p3.htm   (3195 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Cabinet splits over future of spymaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Scarlett, the ‘link-man’ between the intelligence services and government during the production of the ill-fated dossier on Saddam’s alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, has been criticised for huge errors over Iraq’s estimated military strength.
Scarlett’s position was also undermined by the revelation that he failed to disclose that evidence supporting key claims about Saddam Hussein’s WMD arsenal had been withdrawn last year because it was "unreliable".
Scarlett was last night believed to be resisting the growing pressure being exerted upon him.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=820732004   (744 words)

  
 Martin and Caroline Davis's families - Person Page 2
She married John Archibald Scarlett, son of John Henry Scarlett and Henretta Elizabeth Castle, in 1913; DIVORCED 1950.
William John Scarlett was born on 27 September 1920 at Hamilton.
She was born on 5 February 1906 at Walsingham Ont. She married John ("Jack") Fenton Richardson Akehurst, son of Henry Stephen ("Harry") Akehurst and Mary Harriet May Scarlett, in 1930 at Cochrane.
www.freerangephotography.co.uk /MMDgenealogy-p/p2.htm   (1920 words)

  
 John Scarlett Named Head of Britain's MI6 Intelligence Service - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
John Scarlett was named head of the U.K.'s foreign intelligence service MI6, four months after he was cleared of any improper behavior relating to the drafting of a government dossier on Iraqi weapons.
Scarlett was in charge of writing the September 2002 dossier on Iraq's banned weapons program, which was released to help justify the Iraq war.
While "there was nothing improper'' about Campbell and Powell making suggestions to Scarlett, ``the possibility cannot be ruled out'' that the suggestions "may have subconsciously influenced'' Scarlett and his staff, said Hutton, known as Lord Hutton since he became a member of the House of Lords in 1997.
www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread48021/pg   (579 words)

  
 Bigelow-Warren
John's first wife's name is unknown; she was mother of John the Elder, John the Middle, Richard, and Stephen.
John's will was made Apr. 21, 1576 and proved Jun. 5, 1576, naming brothers James and William as executors, children the two Johns, Richard, and Anne.
John PHILLIPS of Wrentham and of Dedham, MA testified that he was the John BAEGELY baptised Feb. 16, 1617, Wrentham Parish, the son of Randall BIGELOW and Jane.
kinnexions.com /smlawson/bigelow.htm   (2391 words)

  
 Who wrote the dossier? — Iraq Dossier - the facts
John Scarlett to the Hutton Inquiry (23 September 2003 pm; Section 106)
What we now know for certain is that John Williams, then the Foreign Office press secretary and a former Mirror colleague of Campbell, actually wrote the first full draft of the dossier.
When evidence of the spin doctors' involvement in the dossier emerged late during the Hutton Inquiry, it was falsely claimed by John Scarlett (Section 83) that they had only attended drafting meetings and not taken part in actual drafting.
iraqdossier.com /who   (1657 words)

  
 The Hutton Inquiry: reformatted transcripts
MR SCARLETT: My only other memory of the meeting was this was something that might need to be dealt with as a disciplinary matter and certainly would need to be dealt with as a personnel matter within the Ministry of Defence structures and would have to be handled accordingly.
MR SCARLETT: That I thought there were some outstanding facts/points here which needed to be got clear, and that a further interview was going to be necessary and it would need to be more thorough than was the impression I had of the interview which had taken place on the Friday.
MR SCARLETT: That was because at that stage, to be clear about this, I and the others involved did not know that he had had any involvement, even of a minimal kind, in the drafting of the intelligence parts of the September dossier.
www.hutton.softblade.com /transcripts.php?action=transcript&session=19&witness=29   (9299 words)

  
 The Downing Street Memos :: The text
John Scarlett summarised the intelligence and latest JIC assessment.
John Scarlett assessed that Saddam would allow the inspectors back in only when he thought the threat of military action was real.
He would also send the Prime Minister advice on the positions of countries in the region especially Turkey, and of the key EU member states.
downingstreetmemo.com /memos.html   (1327 words)

  
 icScotland - MPs want John Scarlett sacked   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Mr Scarlett's appointment by Prime Minister Tony Blair to the top job in MI6 on May 6 sparked controversy because he was expected to come under close scrutiny in Lord Butler's inquiry into intelligence failings in the run-up to war in Iraq.
In his previous role as chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Mr Scarlett was responsible for signing off the notorious September 2002 dossier which wrongly alleged that Saddam Hussein was capable of deploying weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.
Mr Corbyn later told PA News: "Since the inquiry is going on into the effectiveness or otherwise of the intelligence service and he is part of the subject-matter of the inquiry, it seems very strange that he should be promoted in the middle of the inquiry."
icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk /news/uk/today/tm_objectid=14424168&method=full&siteid=50141&headline=mps-want-john-scarlett-sacked-name_page.html   (223 words)

  
 JOHN SCARLETT DAVIS BICENTENARY EXHIBITION - Herefordshire Council
An exhibition of work by artist John Scarlett Davis at the Hereford Museum and Art Gallery marks the bicentenary of his birth.
The son of a Leominster watchmaker (James Davis), John Scarlett showed his talent early on by winning a Silver Palette of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts at the age of 11.
John Scarlett Davis a biography is on sale at the Museum for £9.95.
www.herefordshire.gov.uk /council_gov_democracy/news/825.asp   (697 words)

  
 The Scotsman - UK - MI6 chief faces new call to quit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
JOHN Scarlett, the head of MI6, faced fresh calls for his resignation yesterday - just 24 hours after starting his new job.
The latest call for him to quit came after claims that Mr Scarlett, as head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, had sent an e-mail to the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) on 8 March this year with a list of ten "golden nuggets" for possible inclusion in its report on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.
Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, went ahead with Mr Scarlett’s appointment as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service despite criticism of him in Lord Butler’s report on the subject of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=888622004   (495 words)

  
 John Scarlett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Cook later says in his diary that Scarlett's summary was “shorn of the political slant with which No 10 encumbers any intelligence assessment.” After the meeting with Scarlett, Cook concludes that “Saddam probably does not have weapons of mass destruction in the sense of weapons that could be used against large-scale civilian targets.” [
Sunday Times, 10/5/03 Sources: Robin Cook's diary] The diary reveals how before the war intelligence provided to Cook by John Scarlett indicated that Saddam Hussein probably did not have weapons of mass destruction that could be used to attack the US or Britain.
Guardian, 10/6/03 Sources: Robin Cook's diary] Additionally, the diary shows that Tony Blair ignored the “large number of ministers who spoke up against the war.” He says that the officials in the foreign ministry were consistently opposed to the invasion of Iraq.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?id=1521846767-2333   (1490 words)

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