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...moreover that it contributed to his death by sacrificing his bureaucratic anonymity. Defense Ministry officials, with an assist from Downing Street, helped reporters pinpoint his name. They knew this would inevitably lead to his testifying about what he told BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, who based his provocative charge that Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications chief, had "sexed up" the dossier at least in part on what Kelly had said. Hoon first said he had nothing to apologize for, then was awkwardly silent at a news conference when blamed for being complicit in outing Kelly after the weapons expert notified...
...dossier Blair released last September that argued Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was trying to get more. Blair's approval ratings have been floundering since BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan reported that a "British official involved in the preparation of the dossier" had fingered Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, for "sexing up" that document over the objections of intelligence officials. But by last week, as Parliament emptied for the long summer recess, Blair had grounds to think he might be turning a corner. By majority vote, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons had cleared Campbell...
...deposition may have been "designed solely to trap the President into charges of perjury," but I can't accept the idea of the head of the Executive Branch lying or in any way dissembling before the Judiciary. The far greater injury, however, came when Bill Clinton lied to me. ALASTAIR DALLAS Los Gatos, Calif...
...Alastair M. Rampell ’03 is an applied mathematics concentrator in Leverett House...
...crucial post of Food and Drug commissioner--vacant ever since President Bush took office more than a year ago--finally seemed to have found its man. He was Alastair J.J. Wood, a respected drug-safety expert at Vanderbilt University. Wood, who had been interviewed several times by the White House and told he was the front runner for the job, had the support of usually querulous public interest groups, as well as Senate health-care leaders from both parties. It seemed an easy confirmation...