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...march into its innermost corners last week. He will not have an easy time figuring out why weapons expert David Kelly was moved to kill himself in July. A psychiatrist suggested that Kelly's public exposure - after admitting to his managers that he had talked to BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan - had caused "the severe loss of self-esteem ... from feeling that [his employers] had lost trust in him." But whatever Hutton can deduce about the anguish that Kelly took to his grave, the millions of words in testimony, documents and e-mails he received in evidence - and instantly...
...ANDREW GILLIGAN BBC correspondent He claimed that Kelly, in their May 22 meeting, immediately volunteered Campbell as the dark force behind "sexing up" the dossier. But Olivia Bosch, a friend of Kelly's, said Kelly had told her he did no such thing, and that Gilligan had played a "name game" trying to get him to confirm various people...
...Thursday, when Blair is scheduled to testify. but What do we know at this point? Last month, Kelly, Britain's foremost expert on Iraq's weaponry, was found dead in a field near his Oxfordshire home with his wrist slit. Kelly had been the source for bbc correspondent Andrew Gilligan's story about the government "sexing up" the document, and Kelly admitted to his boss that he had met the journalist (although he was vague about what he had told Gilligan). Kelly, as a civil servant, was supposed to brief journalists on technical matters only, but he expected his confession...
...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 Gilligan's story, which she felt attributed to Kelly things he did not know - specifically...
...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 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...