The Federal Government denies covering up concerns about the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Australian chemical weapons expert, Dr John Gee, has made his concerns public today, two years after resigning from the American led Iraqi Survey Group.
He says he quit because he had lost faith in the process.
When he returned to Australia he told the Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer about his view that the CIA had too much influence over the hunt for weapons and that the search was based on trying to justify the pre-war arguments for going to war.
Mr Downer says he spoke to Dr Gee about the concerns.
"He's a scientist and we took his advice seriously," he said.
Mr Downer denies suppressing Dr Gee's report setting out his views about problems with the process.
