Gordon Brown's comments today about keeping politics and intelligence separate are linked almost everywhere to the dossier (or both of them). See the BBC, The Guardian or the Guardian's Richard Norton-Taylor. It is clear that Brown, or his people, have given the hacks a nod and a wink to make the link. But although Brown is implicitly saying that it was the interference of politics on the dossier that led to the sexing-up, nowhere is the link made with who actually wrote the document.

Clearly if lessons are to be learned about how the dossier took us to war on a cooked-up pretext, we need to find out who did it. The question of who really wrote the dossier goes to the heart of this. Is Sir Gus the man to get to the heart of the matter? Previous experience suggests not, but it depends who is giving the orders.

Meanwhile, Richard Norton-Taylor clearly blames Ann Taylor for Butler pulling his punches.