Gordon Carrera

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.

So, I mean, we'll be hearing from him directly, but he still thinks that there was material which ends up getting hidden and he will say moved out of the country.

by Saddam's regime.

Fair to say that's not a universally accepted view within the intelligence community.

Yeah, I think we should come to that.

Because I think what it's based on is, as the war approaches, they see some trucks moving over the border into Syria from Iraq.

But that doesn't mean the trucks had WMD, because I think the idea is people are moving other stuff.

If you're a senior Iraqi official, you're probably moving your money and your possessions out over the border, aren't you?

So I think there is a suspicion about that and even some reporting.

But