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I have spoken to a British official who was involved in the preparation of the dossier, and he told me that until the week before it was published, the draft dossier produced by the intelligence services added little to what was already publicly known. He said: [Voiceover]: 'It was transformed in the week before it was published, to make it sexier'.

Andrew Gilligan

Andrew Gilligan

Andrew Gilligan

Born: November 22, 1968 (age 57)

Bio: Andrew Paul Gilligan is a British journalist and radio presenter. He is best known for a 2003 report on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme in which he described a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction as 'sexed up'.

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