On 23 November 2015, Farr was announced as the next Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee ( JIC ).
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It also comments that warnings from the Joint Intelligence Committee on the limitations of the intelligence were not made clear.
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Blair said the Joint Intelligence Committee had supported the Africa claim, but he conceded that it may have been wrong.
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But a former chief of the powerful Joint Intelligence Committee said the prime minister should take responsibility for intelligence failures.
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There is no equivalent of the British Joint Intelligence Committee ( JIC ) or US Intelligence Board ( USIB ).
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In Tuesday's hearing, Joint Intelligence Committee chairman John Scarlett denied that the government knowingly exaggerated the threat from Iraqi weapons.
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Scarlett graduated from Oxford University in 1970 and worked at MI6 until leaving for the Joint Intelligence Committee post in 2001.
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The Senate has created a working group to explore changes like creating a new joint intelligence committee with broad new powers.
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Blair will give evidence to another inquiry by the Joint Intelligence Committee, which unlike the foreign affairs committee meets in private.