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...parliamentary and U.S. congressional inquiries - due to report in the fall - judge that he, George W. Bush and other politicians twisted intelligence analysts' arms to reach precooked conclusions. Kelly's death has heightened public suspicions, putting a poignant human face on the idea that the government "sexed up" its dossier on WMD, and suggesting 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...
Except that it wasn't. By late summer, at the very moment that the Administration was gearing up to make its case for military mobilization, the yellowcake story took on new life. In September, Tony Blair's government issued a 50-page dossier detailing the case against Saddam, and while much of the evidence in the paper was old, it made the first public claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. At the White House, Ari Fleischer endorsed the British dossier, saying "We agree with their findings...
...last week of Dr. David Kelly, an advisor to the Ministry of Defense on biological and chemical weapons, inserted a human tragedy into the already bitter fight over whether Tony Blair oversold the case for war on Iraq. Kelly had visited Iraq nearly 40 times, and contributed to the 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...
...some explaining to do on Capitol Hill is not simply that he signed off on a speech that contained a claim based on bogus intelligence. It's that he did so three months after his own agency had warned the Brits against making the same claim in their dossier on Saddam's weapons. Democrats looking to make hay from the imbroglio will be asking whether anyone in the administration was leaning on the CIA to endorse the case for war. One question, in particular, that Tenet may have to answer on the Hill is just what transpired during Cheney...
...make him attractive to the Bush administration. It's not the first time his name has been floated for a top job - Republicans spoke of him as a potential running mate for Bob Dole in 1996. But his long experience also means the environmental movement already has his dossier. A Kempthorne nomination "would embroil the administration in the worst of all conformation battles," says Phil Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust...