ˈButler Reˌport, the BrE AmE ( also the ˈButler Reˌview )
a report which was prepared for the British Government by a ↑ committee led by Lord Butler, an important ↑ civil servant , and which was ↑ publish ed in July 2004. The Government had asked Butler to examine the ↑ intelligence (=information about the secret activities of government, the military plans of an enemy etc) about Iraq's ↑ weapons of mass destruction on which the government had based its decision to join a ↑ coalition (=group of armies from different countries) led by the US which ↑ invade d Iraq in 2003. The report said that important intelligence had been ↑ unreliable (=could not be trusted) and that the Intelligence Service which had advised the government had not checked its ↑ source s (=the people it got information from) carefully enough.