In London yesterday, it was revealed during the David Kelly inquiry, that officials within the British defense intelligence agency protested the government’s decision to publish a dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction that they claimed was greatly exaggerated.

Brian Jones, a retired senior official with the defense intelligence analysis staff said, “We had not seen the weapons being produced. We had no evidence of any recent testing or field trials and things like that. So that all cast some doubts in our mind.”

Jones said his staff’s concerns were ignored and not reflected in the dossier’s final version.

Another official who was only identified as Mr. A told the judicial inquiry, “The perception was that the dossier had been around the houses several times in order to try to find a form of words which could strengthen certain political objectives.”