Meetings and communications with the White House Iraq Group in the lead up to the Iraq War
Dear Cabinet Office,
Under the terms of the FoI Act 2000, I request disclosure of information held either (or both) by the Cabinet Office and Prime Minister's Office about all communications and/or meetings between Special Advisors and Civil Servants involved in the drafting of the WMD Programmes of Concern papers and the Iraq WMD dossier between February and September 2002 and the White House Iraq Group and members thereof. To clarify, this request seeks confirmation about whether such communications or meetings occurred, how many took place, who were involved and asks for records of contents of such communications and meetings.
Yours faithfully,
Christopher Lamb
CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE: FOI318854
Dear CHRISTOPHER LAMB
Thank you for your request for information. Your request was received
on 7/1/2014 and is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
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Yours sincerely,
Knowledge and Information Management Unit
Cabinet Office
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Please find attached the reply to your recent FOI request
Regards
FOI Team
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Dear FOI Team - Cabinet Office [Restricted],
The civil servants concerned are named in an earlier FoI request answered by the Cabinet Office. The link is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...
If I need to reduce the time span covered by the request to meet cost criteria, I reduce it to June to September 2002.
Yours sincerely,
christopher lamb
CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE: FOI319070
Dear CHRISTOPHER LAMB
Thank you for your request for information. Your request was received
on 17/02/2014 and is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
This email is just a short acknowledgement of your request.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the FOI team.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
Yours sincerely,
Knowledge and Information Management Unit
Cabinet Office
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Dear FOI Team - Cabinet Office [Restricted],
The above request of mine still requires a response from yourselves.
Yours sincerely,
christopher lamb
Dear Mr Lamb,
Please find attached the response sent to you on 30/01/2014.
Kind regards,
Cabinet Office FOI Team.
Please find attached the reply to your recent FOI request
Regards
FOI Team
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ
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Dear FOI Team - Cabinet Office [Restricted],
Okay. I further refine my request to two named Special Advisors only; Alistair Campbell and Jonathan Powell. The date lines still apply.
I hope that this reduces the cost.
Yours sincerely,
christopher lamb
CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE: FOI319243
Dear CHRISTOPHER LAMB
Thank you for your request for information. Your request was received
on 18.3.2014 and is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
This email is just a short acknowledgement of your request.
If you have any queries about this email, please contact the FOI team.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
Yours sincerely,
Knowledge and Information Management Unit
Cabinet Office
E: [1][Cabinet Office request email]
Dear FOI Team - Cabinet Office [Restricted],
I think that I may already have clarified this. I had originally identified the senior civil servants and special advisers involved in the team producing the Iraq WMD: Programmes of Concern papers preceding the September 2002 Iraq WMD dossier. I submitted to you the information released from a previous FoI request. This apparently entailed too great a cost. I refine my request to include now only the special advisers Alastair Campbell, who had powers of executive direction over the WMD: Programmes of Concern project and Jonathan Powell.
Yours sincerely,
christopher lamb
Dear Mr Lamb
Your refined request has been received and is in hand
Best
FOI Team
Please find attached the reply to your recent FOI request
Regards
FOI Team
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ
Email – [1][Cabinet Office request email]
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