Mirror: SPOOKED
"BRITAIN's spy chiefs will be blamed in a damning report next week into the intelligence errors used to justify war against Iraq.
And Tony Blair's unshakeable conviction that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction will be blown apart in Lord Butler's 100-page hard-hitting report.
The Prime Minister will almost certainly have to admit he was wrong to rely on the WMD intelligence as justification for joining President George Bush's invasion of Iraq without international backing.
Lord Butler and his five-strong team will spend the next few days finalising the wording of the report on what is seen as the worst bungle by British intelligence since Argentina invaded the Falklands in 1982.
However, arguments are raging over whether to keep the names secret.
A draft copy of the report - to be published on July 14 - looks likely to single out the head of the Government's Joint Intelligence Committee, John Scarlett, and head of MI6 intelligence service Richard Dearlove, for allowing misleading information into a "``dossier"`` Mr Blair used to make the case for war.
The report also looks set to criticise the Government's top lawyer, Lord Goldsmith, who advised the PM that the war was legal."
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