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Failing Intelligence: How Blair Led Us into War in Iraq First Edition
Author(s): Brian Jones (Author)
- Publisher: Dialogue
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2010
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 252 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781906447113
- ISBN-13: 190644711X
Book Description
Former head of the UK Defence Intelligence staffs nuclear, biological, and chemical section, Brian Jones uses his unique placement to denounce the way in which Britain and the United States were taken to war and how the intelligence reporting on Iraqs weapons of mass destruction was manipulated to justify Saddam Husseins removal from power.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Brian Jones has given us an extraordinarily important book, written by an insider who retained integrity whilst his superiors, and most of the politicians, compromised theirs… we celebrate the publication of Failing Intelligence, which is a genuine blow for freedom. –Tony Simpson – The Spokesman
Brian Jones, who was then a member of the scientific directorate of the Defence Intelligence Staff and has now given his revealing and angry account in Failing Intelligence. –New York Review of Books
Brian Jones Failing Intelligence documents how the security establishment utterly failed to act honestly, independently and on the country’s behalf but instead colluded with Blair’s reckless embrace of the Bush ‘kick-ass’ strategy. –Anthony Barnett, Open Democracy
This is one of the most clear and fascinating insider accounts yet of the Iraq debacle –David Hoffman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dead Hand
About the Author
Brian Jones: Brian Jones, was formerly in the scientific and technical directorate of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) and was responsible for analysing all intelligence on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
