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The Butler Review was an independent enquiry and previously available at http://www.butlerreview.org.uk, it is being maintained for archive/historical purposes only.It will not be updated.
Please see http://archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk for details.

 

Terms of Reference

 

  • to investigate the intelligence coverage available on WMD programmes of countries of concern and on the global trade in WMD, taking into account what is now known about these programmes.

  • as part of this work, to investigate the accuracy of intelligence on Iraqi WMD up to March 2003, and to examine any discrepancies between the intelligence gathered, evaluated and used by the Government before the conflict, and between that intelligence and what has been discovered by the Iraq Survey Group since the end of the conflict.

  • to make recommendations to the Prime Minister for the future on the gathering, evaluation and use of intelligence on WMD, in the light of the difficulties of operating in countries of concern.