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...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 it judged "unhelpful and potentially misleading" - for which he apologized. Hutton resumes work again this week, first summoning bbc director general Greg Dyke and some defense officials before recalling previous witnesses...
Last week was a rough one for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. And it wasn't just because protesters wearing Pinocchio noses greeted him when he arrived at the High Court in London to testify before the Hutton Inquiry into the apparent suicide of David Kelly--a government weapons expert and the source for a BBC report in May alleging that Blair's aides knowingly inserted false information into a dossier on Iraq's unconventional weapons. Blair gave a virtuoso performance, saying he would have had to quit if the report had been proved true. Still, a CNN/TIME poll found...
...HUTTON INQUIRY Devils In The Details By J.F.O. McALLISTER | London Important people will be dreading their mail as Lord Hutton summons witnesses to return to his inquiry next week for cross-examination about the events that led to the death of British weapons expert David Kelly - an inquiry that has also become a probe into Tony Blair's case for war. The evidence so far reveals gaps and contradictions that make some returns very likely...
...Passion punch-up broke out when Gibson's father Hutton, 85, a rabid Catholic traditionalist who writes treatises on the perceived lapses of Mother Church, denied the Nazi Holocaust in the New York Times Magazine. Now Gibson should no more be blamed for the sins of the father than Arnold Schwarzenegger is. But Mel, who attends Latin Mass, is outspoken against the Vatican's reforms of the 1960s. Some say he saw The Passion as his own declaration of Catholic fundamentalism. He wanted to steamroller the new Catholic orthodoxy, not steam up a host of biblical scholars...
...claim. Last week, it also appeared Gilligan had tried to coach two M.P.s who were preparing to question Kelly. What's not in doubt is the bitterness of this clash between titans. Was Kelly mistreated? So far there is no hard evidence that Kelly was hounded by officials. But Hutton repeatedly questioned witnesses as to why Kelly had to be named at all. Their answer was that Kelly's identity was bound to come out, given the media interest, and that, if not revealed, the government would have been accused of a cover-up. Campbell admitted the naming of Kelly...