UK Intelligence staff cheated on their Iraq Report:

The UK intelligence document released on Monday was designed to help win over sceptics by detailing Saddam Hussein's efforts to hide weapons of mass destruction. But it emerged that some of the document was copied from three different articles, including one written by a postgraduate student. Excerpts from a paper relating to the build-up to the 1991 Gulf War by Californian student Ibrahim al-Marashi were used in the intelligence document. The paper was published in the Middle East Review of International Affairs.

The funny thing about this, to me, is that just two days ago I stumbled onto some kind of strange forum discussion in the student union. The subject was plagiarism. They were trying to get the message out to students that that kind of cheating is very serious and unacceptable. At the time, I thought it was silly. But now I wonder if perhaps the UK intelligence community could benefit from an open discussion academic standards, grading policies, having pride in your work, etc.