... the draft was written not by the intelligence services, which had responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in the dossier, but by a senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office press officer, whose name has previously featured only on the fringes of the controversy over Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. It raises the possibility that the dossier originated with the government's spin machine rather than the intelligence services ...

So it turns out a spinner wrote the first full draft of the government's WMD dossier, after all. And what a pedigree John Williams has: former political editor of the Daily Mirror, friend of Alastair Campbell and one of Whitehall's most energetic and fearsome press officers ...