MI-6 chief John Scarlett is adamant there has been no involvement in torture by the secret service.
VOA: standard.2009.08.10
The week before the dossier's publication, Downing Street media chief Alastair Campbell sent a memo to Joint Intelligence Committee chairman JohnScarlett.
Britain's chief spymaster, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, JohnScarlett, made a rare public appearance to back up Mr Campbell's assertion.
The question of whether Downing Street exaggerated the threat from Iraq, which was successfully batted away by JohnScarlett, the head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, last month, has returned.