The White House has released excerpts from a secret October 2002 intelligence document to demonstrate how flawed intelligence on Iraq’s nuclear weapons ambitions wound up in a speech by President George Bush.

The US government stood accused today of misrepresenting intelligence information to justify the war with Iraq.

A TOP US State Department expert on chemical and biological weapons told congressional investigators he had been pressured to change his analysis of intelligence on Iraq and other issues, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing unnamed congressional officials.