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...being Downing Street's designated fall guy. Kelly was not only grilled by the Defense Ministry, but also hauled before two parliamentary committees. Lord Hutton is investigating whether Kelly's suicide was the result of undue hounding by officials, and whether the government indeed stretched the truth about WMD...
...about spin after all? Certainly the government was under huge pressure to persuade a lukewarm public about the need for war, and the dossier was continually redrafted. And Blair, it turns out, was also anxious to learn what Kelly's views were about WMD and what Kelly might say to the M.P.s. is the BBC vindicated? Nope. Despite the Beeb's public defense of Gilligan's story, an internal e-mail from Gilligan's boss talked about his strong but "flawed" reporting. And a bbc colleague who also interviewed Kelly complained her bosses had tried to dragoon her into corroborating...
...Party." And in the most backhanded of acknowledgments, the R.N.C. issued a news release charting the leading Democrats' increasingly critical statements on whether President Bush misled the country about how dangerous Saddam Hussein really was. The gleeful R.N.C. headline: DEMS PLAY FOLLOW THE LEADER. FOR YEARS KEY DEMS RECOGNIZED WMD THREAT...BUT NOW HOWARD DEAN HAS CHANGED THEIR MINDS...
Bush can put his U.S. critics on their backs, WMD or not, if he first takes a lesson from Blair and calls their bluff. Bush’s critics were just as convinced of Saddam’s weapons programs, and, like him, did not anchor their stand on the war in the evidence now in question. When Blair’s Conservative Party opposition in Parliament claimed that they were duped by the dodgy dossiers, he neutralized them with the rejoinder, “Let us recall, they [members of the Conservative Party]…were urging...
...Committee of the House of Commons will issue a report on whether Blair misused intelligence on weapons of mass destruction to sell the war in Iraq to a skeptical public. Campbell, enraged by a bbc report in May that claimed he had "sexed up" the major dossier on Iraqi wmd released last September, has launched a ferocious campaign not only to vindicate himself, but to attack the reporter responsible, the BBC and the standards and habits of much of British journalism. "Parts of our media see it as their job to undermine politicians and the democratic process," Campbell told Time...