Date: May 6, 2006 8:54:08 PM PDT
Subject: [cia-drugs] Ex-MI6 Agent blogsite worth checking out
Hi all,
Found Richard Tomlinson's new blog site, wherein he is shaming MI6 for his mis-treament. Some interesting other bits too ...
Duncan
John Scarlett - blood on his hands..
John Scarlett is the current head of MI6, colloquially known as "C" but designated internally as "CSS". He sprung to notoriety when, as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, he published the now infamous and thoroughly discredited "dodgy dossier", which was Britain's legal "justification" for invading Iraq.
I knew John Scarlett when I was in the service. He was a serious (even humourless), deadly cautious individual who carefully considered every word of every document that was put in front of him. I remember him also as having a withering disregard for so-called "CX embellishers" - MI6 officers who exaggerated the gravity of their intelligence reports in order to improve their prospects for self-advancement. He would have examined in great detail all of the elements of the so-called dodgy dossier. I have not a shred of doubt that he knew full well that he was lying through his teeth when he signed it off. I can only speculate as to why he signed off such a dishonest document - maybe he was seduced by prospect of possible promotion to CSS, or maybe he just shared the political views of Blair/Bush and abused his privileged position of impartial assessor of intelligence to sate his personal geopolitical whims. EIther way, it is reprehensible that a public servant signed off a document that was so evidently flawed at the time, and has subsequently been proved to be wildy inaccurate.
But history shows that as a direct result of his dishonesty and lack of principle, Scarlett was promoted to CSS, many thousands of innocent iraqis are dead or maimed, and over a hundred British servicemen have died. He truly has blood on his hands.
Earlier in his career, John Scarlett was H/OS (Head of Operational Security) in MI6, which was his job while I was on trial for attempting to publish my autobiography "The Big Breach". He was therefore the MI6 witness against me. The public gallery had to be cleared before he was allowed to take the stand - such was his "importance". In a hushed voice, to the cowed judge, he pompously and self-importantly claimed that if my autobiography was published, it would "endanger the lives of agents". As a result of his "evidence", I was sentenced to a year in a maximum security prison.
Well I succeeded in publishing my autobiography shortly after I got out of prison, and nobody has died or been maimed as a result. That's more than can be said for his publications.
Scarlett is a venal liar with blood on his hands.
09 April 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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John Scarlett - yep, you really have blood on your hands...
You know, the more I think about this issue, the more I consider John Scarlett to be a pivotal element in the illegal and bloody Iraq invasion.
I've already explained my firm conviction that Scarlett knew he was lying when he presented his infamous dodgy dossier. But I'd bet a lot of dosh that the dodgy dossier was a pivotal element of the UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith's as yet unpublished justification that the "war was legal". Why has the Attorney General never published his argument? Hmmm - perhaps 'cos he knows it would be ripped to bits on the blogosphere - and probably even in the media (lol!!!).
But it is much easier for a "Lord" to twist and bend his personal integrity if somebody else with as much political clout is also bending rules and integrity to the limit, and can be relied upon to back him up...
Then the next day, the head of British Armed Services Sir Admiral Boyce expressed concerns about the legality of the war, which he has reiterated since his retirement
So would Boyce have ordered troops into the war without legal clearance from Goldsmith? I think it is safe to say he would have rightly refused. Would Goldsmith have claimed that invasion was legal under "self-defence" without the outrageous and pathetic "dodgy dossier" from Scarlett? I expect he would have searched for another reason to justify it - but he probably wouldn't have found one, so may have even had to back down over the claim. SInce he won't publish his justification, we have to guess.
But I reckon there is a high probability that Britain's entry into the war pivoted on Scarlett's maliciously dishonest and totally unjustifiable "dodgy dossier". And if Britain had not tagged along with them, would the American despots (Bush/Rumsfeld/Rove) have dared start a war?
Here is a picture of Scarlett smug in his armour-plated limo in London, alongside a photo of the remains of an unarmoured British Army Land Rover in Iraq after its occupants were killed.
And that is just the tip of a bloody, hypocritical, stinking iceberg. If you want to see just a little more of the carnage Scarlett's dishonesty has unleashed on the people of Iraq, look here at this excellent site.
Scarlett - I see from the examining the stats page from the control panel of my blog that MI6 are now readers. So I hope you will read it too and then resign - because you are a cowardly man with blood on your hands.
24 April 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
