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...Geoff Hoon Defense Secretary His office took flak for outing Kelly, but he escaped censure and kept...
...every judicial inclination has been to avoid meddling in politics, would really blast the Prime Minister so fiercely that Blair would have to resign. Blair's own aides seem to agree. And certainly Hutton had many other legitimate targets to choose from, including the BBC and Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon. But the brisk rectitude Hutton displayed through months of hearings kept open the possibility of a body blow that could force Blair from office. But Blair has never been one to wait for blows to land. In speeches and on TV and radio, he hammered home the virtues...
...checking the foundations of his report. Excerpts from Campbell's diary released last week showed how eager he was to "out" Kelly after he advised his bosses he didn't think what he told Gilligan could possibly be the source of the "sexing up" claim: "GH [Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon] and I agreed it would f___ Gilligan if [Kelly] was his source," read one. But the real loser from that evidence was Hoon, who had already claimed he had nothing to do with the way his officials outed Kelly to journalists. Hutton will report by December. But Blair...
...told the committee he judged that risk was less than that of giving Saddam more time to forge a link between terrorists and his wmds - but one risk he avoided was letting M.P.s and the public in on the internal debate. The committee drew blood from Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon. He testified that dissent about the dossier among Ministry of Defence analysts was minimal, despite knowing that two had written formal complaints. Only when these letters were going to Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly did they arrive at the committee - a sequence...
...GEOFF HOON Defense Secretary He testified that he was "not party to discussions" that led his officials to give Kelly's name to journalists. But his special adviser, Richard Taylor, said the naming strategy was discussed at a July 9 meeting Hoon chaired...