Gordon Carrera

Where is the good stuff?

Where is the intelligence you told me that existed about WMD?

And he's pushing that.

MI6 Harden.

There's a really interesting meeting, January the 9th, 2003.

Tony Blair meets Richard Dearlove, chief of MI6, who of course is going to be in an episode for our club members, a bonus episode.

Tony Blair asks about the chances of finding a silver bullet, something to prove Saddam has the weapons, which will help turn international opinion and support for the war

That's clearly coming.

And Dearlove is kind of saying, well, we're still looking for something.

And Blair looks at him and says, Richard, my fate is in your hands.

I mean, that is quite a statement from a prime minister to an intelligence chief, isn't it?

I mean, it's because he knows that he's put his faith, trust, his fate, his future in the hands of the intelligence, which he has been told, assured, is there.

I think that's right.

It matters less than it does for Blair, who has really staked everything on that WMD.

And so the inspector's drawing a blank.

MI6 is saying, well, it just shows how devious Saddam is and how incompetent the inspectors are.

So they start kind of

saying, you know, these inspectors are terrible.

They don't, you know, they're announcing where they're going.

And it is worth saying that Dearlove continues to blame the inspectors and believe things were there.