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...saying he would have had to quit if the report had been proved true. Still, a CNN/TIME poll found that only 6% of the British public today consider his government a more trustworthy source than the BBC for facts about the war. And Blair's closest adviser, communications director Alastair Campbell, resigned on Friday. Though Campbell had long made known his intention to leave soon, some regarded him as the first political casualty of the scandal...
...ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Blair's communications director He claimed to have "no input, output, influence ... whatsoever" over the claim in the government's September dossier that Iraq could use chemical weapons within 45 minutes. But Downing St. memos show he sought wording changes on this topic. And questions remain about his role in the decision to release Kelly's name...
...ALASTAIR DALY for TIME (3) list to join "Mob, the project that creates an inexplicable mob of people in New York City for 10 minutes or less." On the list was Dan Goldstein, a psychologist at Columbia University and part-time performer. Goldstein (full disclosure: he's also my brother) has over 1,000 people on a Yahoo e-mail list called Sitcominfo he uses to promote his plays. He forwarded Bill's e-mail to all of them. The first mob didn't go entirely according to plan. Someone, later dubbed Squealer, tipped off the police who were waiting...
...adviser should never become the story. Rule 2: Don't be nasty; you may disagree with reporters, you may tussle with them, but browbeating eventually backfires. Rule 3: Under no circumstances attack the media as a whole. They are jealous of their prerogatives, and buy ink by the barrel. Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's director of communications and strategy, has staked his own career - and arguably the future of Blair's government - on exactly the opposite course. This week the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons will issue a report on whether Blair misused intelligence on weapons...
...already bitter fight over whether Blair oversold the case for war into more treacherous ground. At a news conference in Japan on Saturday, a reporter went so far as to ask a visibly drawn and shaken Blair if he had "blood on his hands"--because his communications director, Alastair Campbell, was instrumental in arranging for Kelly to testify. The committee was investigating whether Campbell had "sexed up" the dossier Blair released last September on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, as a BBC reporter claimed. Kelly had denied being the source for that claim. After exchanges in which some M.P.s directed...