The Guardian's Richard Norton Taylor

In 2002, the idea that war is very, very likely really starts to come into view. The arguments were multiple, but they rested on, could you trust the intelligence? We were being told that the intelligence said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Could you trust that? Was that reliable? And most of the British media and crucially, I think the American media said, yep, this is copper-bottomed intelligence.