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...allegation were true, it would have merited my resignation." TONY BLAIR, British Prime Minister, appearing before an independent inquiry to refute a BBC report that he had "sexed up" an intelligence dossier on Iraq...
...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...
...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 me to take action on the issue of weapons of mass destruction, wholly outside the dossier and the evidence. I do not accept that people were misled...
...Foreign Affairs 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...
...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 anger toward the government but little toward him, the committee concluded that Kelly wasn't the story's primary source...