Proof Emerges: BBC Misled U.K. Public About Iraq in Effort
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Thu, 09/04/2003 - 2:23pm
And Blair took lessons from the liar in chief on how to mislead his people into war:
UK intelligence officers: dossier overstated case for war
updated 12:55 p.m. ET September 4, 2003 In a blow to the credibility of Tony Blair's government, two senior intelligence figures told the Hutton inquiry Wednesday that last September's weapons dossier, which was used by the government to justify its case for war against Iraq, was manipulated by government "spin merchants."[ 09-04-2003: Message edited by: Lewiston Liberal ]
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Looks like the BBC took lessons from the N.Y. Times, or was it the other way around?Expert: BBC Misled U.K. on Iraq Dossier
Thu Sep 4,11:16 AM ET By JANE WARDELL, Associated Press Writer LONDON - A British Broadcasting Corp. reporter — and not a top government weapons adviser — was the one who suggested during an interview that a top aide of Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) was behind an exaggeration of the threat posed by Iraq (news - web sites), an arms expert said Thursday.That testimony by Olivia Bosch contradicted statements by the BBC's Andrew Gilligan, who said adviser David Kelly suggested the name of key Blair aide Alastair Campbell without prompting. Bosch, testifying at an inquiry into Kelly's apparent suicide, said Kelly told her during a phone conversation that Gilligan played a "name game" with him when they met. "He said he was taken aback by the way Andrew Gilligan tried to elicit information from him," Bosch said. "He said he had never experienced it in the way that Gilligan had tried to do so, by a 'name game.' "The first name he (Gilligan) mentioned, and very quickly, was Campbell," Bosch told the inquiry, which is headed by senior appeals judge Lord Hutton. Kelly said he felt obliged to give Gilligan some form of answer, so he said "maybe," she testified. Gilligan told a different story in a piece for the Mail on Sunday on June 6: "I asked him how this transformation happened. The answer was a single word: 'Campbell.'" http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&e=3&u=/ap/20030904/ap_on_re_eu/britain_weapons_adviser_12