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...role in "outing" Kelly's name to journalists - only to find that Hutton's judgment wholly undercut him. He seemed so stunned that he couldn't revise his line of attack last week, and ended up looking churlish and maladroit. The Tory comeback hit a speed bump. The BBC faced the worst crisis in its 80?year history. Its chairman, Gavyn Davies, resigned the day Hutton issued his brutal criticisms of the Beeb's journalistic practices and governing-board oversight, but offered an apology so tepid that Downing Street sought more. The next day the Director General, Greg Dyke, also...
...Hutton was certainly on solid ground in castigating BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan (who has also resigned) for making "very grave" and "unfounded" charges when he accused the government, in an unscripted, unedited broadcast he made from home, of "probably knowing" that a central claim in its dossier on Iraqi WMD - that some were deployable in 45 minutes - was false and inserted over the objections of the intelligence community, allegedly at the behest of Blair's powerful communications director, Alastair Campbell. The testimony to Hutton showed that top spies put it in, and believed it at the time. Hutton also condemned...
...Gavyn Davies BBC chairman Blindly defended Gilligan's reporting - and paid for it with...
...Greg Dyke BBC director general Resigned, but is sure to contest Hutton's report from the wings...
...Andrew Gilligan BBC journalist Got the story but muddied the facts. Needs a new job - or a book deal...