Examination of Witnesses (Questions 1178-1179)
RT HON
JACK STRAW
MP, MR PETER
RICKETTS, CMG AND
MR WILLIAM
EHRMAN, CMG
27 JUNE 2003
Q1178 Chairman: Secretary of State,
we welcome you today, again, together with Mr Peter Ricketts,
the Director General, Political and Mr William Ehrman, who is
the Director General, Defence/Intelligence. Today, Secretary of
State, we are reaching the very last lap of our planned sessions,
with a public session with you initially and then at an appropriate
stage we shall move into private session. Clearly our aim throughout
has been to examine whether the information presented to Parliament
and the public in respect of the decision to go to war was accurate
and complete. This was sparked by a BBC report. Perhaps it would
be helpful to begin by seeing where we are now. There is some
agreement, I think we all agreed when we last met, that the February
3 document was a "Horlicks", and you did not resile
from that.
Mr Straw: Carry on and I will
offer you my view in a moment.
Q1179 Chairman: Do you accept that
the unfortunate consequences of the preparation of that document
is that the Prime Minister inadvertently gave to Parliament not
the full information in respect of the intelligence services?
Mr Straw: The February dossier,
no.
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