British use reporter’s work in Iraq fiasco
Irish journalist Sean Boyne found himself at the centre of a diplomatic fiasco yesterday after it was revealed that Downing Street had plagiarised part of an article he had written on the Iraqi intelligence network, as well as other material from a postgraduate thesis by a Californian student.
The article originally appeared in Janes Intelligence Review six years ago, but sections of it were lifted and included in Mr Blair’s dossier, designed to help win over anti-war sceptics by detailing Iraq’s alleged efforts to hide its weapons of mass destruction.
