The Intelligence was being cooked

Michael Smith, of the London Time, and Downing Street Memo fame was involved in an on-line chat with the Washington Post. In reply to one question about use of language and intent of the speaker he had this to day:

There are number of people asking about fixed and its meaning. This is a real joke. I do not know anyone in the UK who took it to mean anything other than fixed as in fixed a race, fixed an election, fixed the intelligence. If you fix something, you make it the way you want it. The intelligence was fixed and as for the reports that said this was one British official. Pleeeaaassee! This was the head of MI6. How much authority do you want the man to have? He has just been to Washington, he has just talked to George Tenet. He said the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. That translates in clearer terms as the intelligence was being cooked to match what the administration wanted it to say to justify invading Iraq.

OK, it isn't any clearer, Bush lied, and we are now at war.