The week before the dossier's publication, Downing Street media chief Alastair Campbell sent a memo to Joint Intelligence Committee chairman John Scarlett.
Britain's chief spymaster, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, John Scarlett, made a rare public appearance to back up Mr Campbell's assertion.
Mr Scarlett, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, changed the wording of the claim in the text to match that of the summary.
Raw information is collated by intelligence agencies, who then process it and send it to the Joint Intelligence Committee, who put together assessments in the form of strategic documents.
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.
The question of whether Downing Street exaggerated the threat from Iraq, which was successfully batted away by John Scarlett, the head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, last month, has returned.
Former Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) chairman Sir Rodric Braithwaite told the programme it looked like the current committee had become involved in rallying the public around the pre-war stance against Iraq.
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Sir Paul Lever, chairman of the Royal United Service Institute and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, said the intelligence were concerned their phone and e-mail interception techniques would be revealed.
Just a month earlier the Joint Intelligence Committee, which draws up assessments from information gathered by several intelligence services, had concluded that suicide-attacks were not likely and would not become the norm in Europe.
Since 1994, the ISC has been the statutory oversight body for the Security Service (MI5), Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and also consults with the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), Intelligence, Security and Resilience Group (ISRG), the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), and other agencies.
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Finger presented the assessment to a joint hearing of the House Intelligence Committee and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
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