Thanks to reader Dawn, a Dr. Kelly afficionado, who responded to my post about Carne Ross and Dr. David Kelly as follows:
"Of course the deceit was worked “in tandem”. I remember deducing that the plan was likely hatched in Feb 02, when “Bliar” was at the Crawford ranch. M. look at the timeline.. It was a rather blatant conspiracy, committed by baffoons, bolstered by a complicit · in · war · crimes · lap · dog · media, and gobbled up by a majority of the sheeple."
Her documentation is, as always, thorough and fascinating. It can be found in the comments to my post below. But one particular reference I’d never run across is particularly illuminating:
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| Timeline: dossier affair at a glance |
It’s a timeline of the public sheenanigans from the land of the Magna Carta. We all know how it went here with the Bush/Cheney campaign for War with Iraq, but the British version is less well known, though no less deceitful. It hinged on a dossier [September 24, 2002] prepared by Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications and Strategy. It claimed, among other things, that Saddam Hussein could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. There was a later dossier, the "dodgy dossier," also written by Alastair Campbell [February 3, 2003]. It was the claims in these two documents that Blair used to justify the war, and Bush referred to with his "sixteen words" in his 2003 SOTUS. It was also these dossiers that Dr. David Kelly said had been "sexed up."
What the timeline makes clear are the iterations and rewrites this so-called 
intelligence went through on the way to publication. Intelligence that is being "cooked" needs a lot of rewrites. For example, Colin Powell holed up for days writing his speech to the U.N. over and over. It contained almost nothing that held up over time. The British dossiers are apparently another example of the difficult process of putting together false documents.
Real intelligence is very simple, like "Damn General Custer! Look at all them indians!"
So many loose ends to tie up. So little time.
You’re too kind. Now I wish I’d have bent for the polish.. have a look at today’s ‘news’:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23378469-details/The%20final,%20ghastly%20days%20of%20Blair/article.do
When Alastair Campbell left Downing Street in the wake of the death of Iraqi weapons expert Dr David Kelly, the Prime Minister’s allies explicitly stated that he had learned his lesson.
They said that there would be no more spin, no more deception, no more smears, no more burying of bad news. Government henceforward was to be conducted on a straightforward basis.
How utterly wrong these claims turned out to be. I have been keeping a file of ministerial lies and deceptions, and it is now bulging.
Re: your above post. >>>the iterations and rewrites this so-called intelligence went through on the way to publication.