Watered Down Report

Apparently the Butler report was originally going to have some much stronger language:

In the original draft this last sentence was much stronger, expressing the opinion that Mr Blair personally masterminded the misleading impression left by the dossier. The passage is important because Downing Street maintained last week that the report at no point questions Mr Blair's "good faith".

Now, that's the kind of direct censure I was hoping we'd see in the Butler report - if it is true, as this article alleges, hopefully we'll see some genuinely searching questions during the upcoming Commons debate. Lord Butler is in many ways, an Old School 'voice of the establishment', and I'm sure the language was softened with the best of intentions... however, a sin of omission is a sin nonetheless.