Gordon Carrera

So the existing agent says he's got a new subsource and has this vague report, and it is vague, saying that biological or chemical munitions could be with military units and ready for firing within 20 to 45 minutes.

Where it exactly comes from, there's still a little bit of mystery about it.

Some people said, oh, someone overheard in a taxi.

Another person said it was like a notice on a notice board saying, you should be ready for this.

And even MI6, when they're asked about it by British intelligence analysts,

are less clear about the exact source than the analysts would have expected you know it's later said that they were unusually vague and unhelpful about what the exact source so you've already got something which it's a little bit unclear where it's come from and there's some specific problems with it as well for instance is it biological or chemical weapons it's not actually clear and also i mean someone when you dig down into it what does it mean

the munitions could be fired, the WMD, within 20 to 45 minutes.

As someone puts it, well, if it actually takes 45 minutes to move a munition from a storage place to a unit to fire it, that's actually not that impressive.

If it's already with the unit, then what does that actually tell you?

It's not that impressive.

And actually, they end up changing it from 20 to 45 to 45, which is also a bit weird because they think 20 sounds too quick.

which I find a kind of odd thing to have done.

So it actually changes.

There's also none of the kind of collateral or corroborating intelligence you might want to go with it.

Which unit, which types of weapons, where is the WMD being produced, by whom?

You know, there's no surrounding intercept or anything to support it.

So it's a kind of quite vague statement.

But the thing is, they're putting together this dossier,

The emails are whizzing back and forth.

People are kind of pleading for more information.