Following the Hutton Enquiry and the Butler Report and the subsequent calls for greater transparency, we have concluded that we should release details of the secret Operation Yelsnot that the Tonsley crew undertook in 2002 and which concluded at the Tonsley Day of Reckoning in January 2004.

With very little intelligence available within the Committee (with the possible exception of Floody), Operation Yelsnot was undertaken using the traditional madness that appears to belie most things Tonsley...