Dodgy dossier aide now the £100,000 boss of White House lobbying firm

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The man who wrote the infamous ‘dodgy dossier’ for Tony Blair about Saddam Hussein’s weapons is now a £100,000-a-year adviser working at the nerve centre of Barack Obama’s military and foreign policy establishment.

The intelligence dossier produced by Downing Street weeks before the Iraq War, which included out-of-date research cut and pasted from the internet, has played a key part in the Chilcot Inquiry into the conflict.

Despite the scandal, former Ministry of Defence civil servant Paul Hamill is now Director of Government Services at Hill & Knowlton, America’s most influential lobbying firm.

TVNL Comment" "Dispite?" It should read "thanks to his willingness to lie!"

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