I have basically been supportive of the administration's point that it was
simply fooled - that the intelligence community, including the UK, Germany,
France, Jordan - other countries that confirmed what we had in our intelligence
package, yet we were all just fooled.

Lately, I'm growing increasingly concerned because two things have just
happened here that really make me wonder.

And the one is the questioning of Sheikh al-Libby where his confessions
were obtained through interrogation techniques other than those authorised by
Geneva.

It led Colin Powell to say at the UN on 5 February 2003 that there were
some pretty substantive contacts between al-Qaeda and Baghdad. And we now know
that al-Libby's forced confession has been recanted and we know - we're pretty
sure that it was invalid.

But more important than that, we know that there was a defence
intelligence agency dissent on that testimony even before Colin Powell made his presentation. We never heard about that.

Follow that up with Curveball, and the fact that the Germans now say they
told our CIA well before Colin Powell gave his presentation that Curveball - the
source to the biological mobile laboratories - was lying and was not a
trustworthy source. And then you begin to speculate, you begin to wonder was
this intelligence spun; was it politicised; was it cherry-picked; did in fact
the American people get fooled - I am beginning to have my concerns.