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	UK Joint Intelligence Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It evaluates the performance of the UK intelligence agencies and presents summaries to the Prime Minister and other ministers.
		Full details of the UK central intelligence machine, of which the JIC is part, are set out in a now somewhat dated official document at [3] JIC meetings are in two parts: the first at which Australia, Canada and the US are represented; and the second, with no foreigners present.
		JIC members John Scarlett and Sir Richard Dearlove (head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service) gave evidence to the Inquiry in which they argued that the words used in the dossier were consistent with their assessment of the intelligence available at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joint_Intelligence_Committee (579 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Blair 'not interested in intelligence agencies'
		The key committee on the intelligence services (CSI) - which is chaired by Mr Blair and includes the deputy prime minister, the chancellor, and the home, foreign and defence secretaries, still had not met, the ISC said in its annual report.
		Committee members did not believe that their probe into the war on Iraq would be blocked by ministers or the prime minister.
		The committee's report went on to reveal that a "small number" of UK companies were still trying to breach export restrictions which were in place to prevent the global proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /iraq/story/0,12956,974643,00.html (901 words)

	DAWN - Features; 16 October, 2004
		UK government officials in Whitehall, London, knew long before that vote that much of the intelligence in the September dossier was unsound.
		At this point Elizabeth Wilmshurst, the deputy legal adviser to the UK Foreign Office, resigned and subsequently protested that "the conflict in Iraq was contrary to international law".
		We are left with the unsettling conclusion that the legal case for the war collapses among the rubble of false intelligence in the same way as the political justification.
	www.dawn.com /2004/10/16/fea.htm (1310 words)

	Current Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Intelligence and the War in Iraq BCISS' major on-going project is the analysis of intelligence and its role in the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003.
		Intelligence and the War on Terrorism: BCISS staff are also conducting an on-going study of the role, potentials and limitations of intelligence in the so-called 'war on terrorism', and wider aspects of the post-9/11 international arena.
		Intelligence and National Information Infrastructure Security: HMG maintains that the introduction of Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC) to the United Kingdom's defence and intelligence assets is essential if the United Kingdom is to ensure their continued effectiveness, both as stand-alone assets and in terms of interoperability with our allies' assets.
	www.brunel.ac.uk /about/acad/bbs/research/centres/bciss/projects (496 words)

	The trouble with joint intelligence -DAWN - International; 29 May, 2004
		It assumes that intelligence was the crucial driver in President Bush's decision to invade Iraq.
		The CIA was simply furious that the Pentagon had butted in on the business of intelligence assessment, which is their bailiwick - particularly when it comes to gaining the ear of the president.
		Most of the time the UK's intelligence position on any matter, including the celebrated "dossiers", is likely to be at least partly built on the American point of view.
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/29/int6.htm (781 words)

	Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) - UK Intelligence Agencies
		The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) agrees on the broad intelligence requirements and tasking to be laid upon SIS and GCHQ.
		The intelligence requirements are ordered into three priorities according to their importance to the national security and economic well-being of the United Kingdom.
		The Committee reports to the Secretary of the Cabinet except that any special assessments required by the Chiefs of Staff shall be submitted directly to them in the first instance.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/uk/jic/index.html (528 words)

	Iraq intelligence misleading: British expert
		intelligence staff were blamed for decisions made last year to justify the reasons for going to war.
		His assessment that 'expert intelligence analysts' were overruled 'resulting in a presentation that was misleading about Iraq's capabilities' comes less than 24 hours after Blair ordered a six-month investigation headed by former Cabinet Secretary Lord Butler into whether British intelligence was accurate into the run up to the Iraq war.
		On Tuesday the British Foreign Office agreed that UK's joint intelligence committee warned last March that 'the intelligence on the timing of when Iraq might use chemical and biological weapons was sparse'.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/feb/04iraq.htm (381 words)

	Christopher Adams and Edward Alden, "UK report fuels debate over Iraq WMD threat," Financial Times, 11 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The warning was made public on Thursday by a UK parliamentary committee investigating the intelligence used in the run-up to war.
		The JIC, which includes the heads of the UK's three intelligence and security agencies, judged that al-Qaeda and associated groups were by far the greatest threat facing the west, and "that threat would be heightened by military action against Iraq," according to the report of the parliamentary committee.
		While the parliamentary report demonstrates a pattern of selective and at times misleading use of intelligence to build the case for war, it exonerates the Blair government's central claim that intelligence was not distorted for political ends in its controversial September, 2002 dossier.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/bush/wmds.htm (613 words)

	Encyclopedia article: UK Joint Intelligence Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It evaluates the performance of the UK intelligence agencies (additional info and facts about intelligence agencies) and presents summaries to the Prime Minister (The person who holds the position of head of state in England) and other ministers.
		Despite the work of the 1400 strong Iraq Survey Group (additional info and facts about Iraq Survey Group) in post-war Iraq no evidence of actual WMD capability was uncovered, according to its final report in September 2004.
		Similarly, the US Senate (The upper house of the United States Congress) Intelligence Committee, while critical of US intelligence officials, did not recommend any resignations in its report, also issued in July 2004.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/UK/UK_Joint_Intelligence_Committee1.htm (316 words)

	UK Joint Intelligence Committee - rFind.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Defence Intelligence Staff [ DIS ]- UK Intelligence Agencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Defence Intelligence Staff is the main provider of strategic Defence Intelligence to the Ministry of Defence, and the Armed Forces and is also a key element of the United Kingdom’s central intelligence machinery.
		The Chief of Defence Intelligence is responsible for the work of the DIS and is charged also with the overall direction of intelligence within the defence community.
		CDI is deputy chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, which produces authoritative intelligence assessments on behalf of the UK intelligence community and which is the main national instrument for advising on intelligence collection priorities and the assessment of the results.
	fas.org /irp/world/uk/dis (968 words)

	The American Joint Intelligence Committee and Estimates of the Soviet Union, 1945-1947 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This new agency was to consist of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, the Director of Naval Intelligence, an Assistant Secretary of State, a representative of the Board of Economic Warfare (later the Foreign Economic Administration), and the COI (later the Director of the OSS).
		The whole idea of joint representation was anathema to advocates of centralized intelligence, especially those who experienced firsthand the frustrations of the JIC system and its autonomous membership.
		A centralized intelligence service with all its experts under a "single roof" and administered by a civilian leader was thought to be the necessary antidote for the ills associated with the JIC apparatus.
	www.odci.gov /csi/studies/summer00/art06.html (9351 words)

	Prime Minister's foreword
		The JIC is at the heart of the British intelligence machinery.
		What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons, that he continues in his efforts to develop nuclear weapons, and that he has been able to extend the range of his ballistic missile programme.
		Intelligence reports make clear that he sees the building up of his WMD capability, and the belief overseas that he would use these weapons, as vital to his strategic interests, and in particular his goal of regional domination.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page284.asp (713 words)

	Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
		Document 11: UK Joint Intelligence Committee, Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government, September 2002.
		The initial portions of the report provide overviews of the committee's investigation, of the intelligence assessment organizations (the Joint Intelligence Committee and Assessments Staff), and of JIC assessments from August 1990 to September 2002.
		Further, Tenet charged that the Committee's assertion that the Intelligence Community did not challenge longstanding judgments and assessments was "simply wrong." He also accused the Committee of having failed to try to understand the scope of U.S. collection activities targeted against Iraqi WMD programs.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB80 (7384 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - Spy chief to be head of joint intelligence committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Spy chief to be head of joint intelligence committee
		THE spy chief who last year gave evidence beside the late Dr David Kelly is to become the next head of the joint intelligence committee (JIC), which produced Tony Blair’s dossier on Iraq.
		William Ehrman, the top intelligence official at the Foreign Office, will replace John Scarlett as the government moves to implement Lord Butler’s recommendations for keeping spin out of the system.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=816832004 (487 words)

	MI5 > About MI5 > Role & Organisation > National Intelligence Machinery
		The Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator, Bill Jeffrey, advises the Prime Minister on the co-ordination of the intelligence machinery, the establishing of intelligence requirements and arrangements for assessing the performance of the security and intelligence agencies.
		The JIC is the central body in the UK's interdepartmental intelligence machinery.
		The Security Service contributes intelligence to meet some of the JIC requirements but, in line with our statutory functions, we formulate our own set of plans and priorities, which are approved by the Home Secretary.
	www.mi5.gov.uk /output/Page151.html (387 words)

	Claims and evaluations of Iraq's proscribed weapons
		UK dossier, 24 September 2002, p.25: "there is intelligence that Iraq has sought the supply of significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
		UK dossier, 24 September 2002, p.16: "we assess that when the UN inspectors left Iraq they were unable to account for [...] up to 3,000 tonnes of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tonnes which, in the Iraqi chemical warfare programme, were unique to the production of VX".
		UK dossier, 24 September 2002, p.20: "Parts of the al-Qa'qa' chemical complex damaged in the Gulf War have also been repaired and are operational.
	traprockpeace.org /weapons.html (14484 words)

	Interim Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) is responsible for the management of the work of the Committee.
		The postholder assists the JIC in establishing intelligence requirements and priorities for the Agencies, and advises the Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator on matters connected with the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) of Parliament.
		William Ehrman was appointed the Director General for Defence and Intelligence at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 2002.
	www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk /newsroom/news_releases/2004/040720_jic.asp (557 words)

	UK Joint Intelligence Committee - TheBestLinks.com - JIC, Australia, Canada, MI6, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) is the Cabinet Office body which sets goals for the United Kingdom intelligence agencies, evaluates their output and presents summaries to the Prime Minister.
		The JIC comprises the heads of the British intelligence agencies, its permanent chair and various specialist staff, seconded according to the subjects under discussion, it normally meets once a week.
		The CIA Chief of Station in London normally attends all meetings, leaving when 'domestic' issues are discussed.
	www.thebestlinks.com /JIC.html (398 words)

	[INFOCON] Statement by FBI Director Robert Mueller Regarding the Joint Intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The FBI thanks the Joint Committee for their efforts and for its recommendations to improve the Counterterrorism efforts of the United States government.
		The FBI has increased the number of Joint Terrorism Task Forces from 35 to 66, which are located in each of the FBI's 56 field offices and 10 resident agencies, to allow better coordination and information sharing with state and local law enforcement.
		The Office of Law Enforcement Coordination was created as a new division within the FBI to enhance the coordination and communication between the FBI and state, municipal, county and tribal law enforcement on a national level.
	www.iwar.org.uk /pipermail/infocon/2003-July/000413.html (1154 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Spy watchdog criticises dossier
		The ISC is to start a full inquiry into the intelligence gathered on Iraq's illegal weapons after the government was accused of "sexing up" intelligence reports and exaggerating the threat from Saddam Hussein.
		The committee says it is too soon to make any "definitive statements" about the role of intelligence in the conflict with Iraq.
		Another key complaint in the ISC report is that a key intelligence committee, intended to be chaired by Mr Blair, has not even met.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2978286.stm (573 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| The trouble with joint intelligence
		But assuming the other guy thinks in the same way that you do - "transferring judgment" - is one of the cardinal sins of intelligence analysis, so the scenario is at least possible.
		In the end it does not matter whether Washington has been duped by the Iranians or whether the US intelligence community is having one of its periodic bureaucratic turf wars - either way the spillover will have affected the UK's intelligence machinery for the worse.
		It's time, once again, that we had a fully British intelligence process - British intelligence collected by British means and put together by British analysts to produce a British judgment.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1224704,00.html (810 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| The UK's intelligence agencies
		The UK's intelligence network consists of five agencies of which the main three - MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - command a combined budget of just under £900m a year.
		It was MI6 which supplied much of the information that went into the September 2002 intelligence dossier on Iraq, notably the single-sourced second hand reports that Iraq was able to launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes of an order being given.
		The committee's chief, John Scarlett, was in charge of producing the September 2002 Iraq dossier.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3460275.stm (534 words)

	Scoop: Testimony to the Joint Intelligence Committee Inq.
		The Office of the Coordinator is a major intelligence consumer, rather than an intelligence producer, and our mission depends on the timely and efficient flow of information on terrorism and terrorist threats.
		One of our objectives therefore is to enhance the sharing of threat and other counterterrorism intelligence between our government and the many other governments around the world that are contributing to the global war on terrorism.
		The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) represents the Department on the Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism also participate in selected committee activities.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0210/S00018.htm (3804 words)

	The Joint Intelligence Committee - the JIC Chairman & Co-ordinator for Intelligence and Security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Joint Intelligence Committee agrees on the broad intelligence requirements and tasking (National Intelligence Requirements) for SIS and GCHQ and oversees the activities of the Security Service's.
		Originally formed as the Inter-Service Intelligence Committee (ISIC) under the Chiefs of Staff in January 1936, retitled the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) in July 1936.
		Following criticism of the JIC performance both before and during the Falklands War from the Franks Committee in January 1983 a full time Chairman for the JIC was to be appointed from within the Cabinet Office.
	hometown.aol.com /ContinuityRA/jic.html (969 words)

	Document relatifs aux relations extérieures du Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		You will be aware of the conversations among representatives of our two governments and the government of (the UK) (Canada) on the subject of exchanging intelligence relating to the possibility of an attack by Soviet or satellite forces against the NATO area.
		The USA, UK and Canadian intelligence authorities will make arrangements to ensure that such exchanges can be made by the most expeditious means possible.
		I understand that the Ambassador of (Canada) (the UK) on behalf of his government is addressing an identical letter to you.
	dfait-maeci.gc.ca /department/history/dcer/details-fr.asp?intRefid=4648 (274 words)

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