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To: maceng2 who wrote (106869)	7/21/2003 4:53:32 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It's probably finnished Tony Blairs career, Too bad if it has. You will never see it on BBC, but Blair's speech to Congress was magnificent. If you have broadband, go to cspan.org and play his speech. Blair, et al, may have pushed the facts on the Intel, but that is all conjecture. We KNOW BBC lied, based on what they had. I would think that a Labor meeting would have to kick him out the same way the Conservatives kicked out Thatcher.

To: maceng2 who wrote (106869)	7/21/2003 7:07:24 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

ANDREW SULLIVAN SUMS IT UP THE BBC'S VICTIM: Readers of this blog will not be surprised to find that the tragedy of British scientist David Kelly's death may well be linked to the corrupt journalism of the BBC. It was clear to anyone with eyes and ears that at some point in this past year, the BBC decided to launch a propaganda campaign against the war against Saddam and to tarnish, if not bring down, the premiership of Tony Blair. When news organizations turn into political parties - as we saw with Howell Raines' New York Times - it's only a matter of time before they over-reach. May 29 was such a moment. On that day, the BBC produced a story claiming that a "senior intelligence official" had told them that the Blair government, in the person of Alastair Campbell, had "sexed up" its dossier on Iraqi WMDs against the wishes of the intelligence services. One central claim was the notion that Saddam could launch WMDs within 45 minutes. We learned yesterday that David Kelly was indeed the source of such a claim. But Kelly denied that he had made such broad claims when he was alive; he was never a "senior intelligence source," but a mere, if excellent, scientist; and it's becoming clearer and clearer that the BBC reporter, Andrew Gilligan, sexed up his own story in order to further the BBC's campaign against the Iraq war. Kelly's member of parliament, Robert Jackson, has drawn the obvious conclusion: "I think the fact of the matter is that Gilligan, under pressure from his news colleagues for a scoop, for an exclusive story, under pressure from the wider BBC establishment and its general vendetta against the government on the question of the war against Iraq, I believe he sexed up the whole story and this created the situation that led to the death of my constituent." That's a very serious charge, and we may not yet know every detail of this story. It is certainly not to the credit of the Blair government that, when Kelly told his superiors of his contact with the BBC, they pushed Kelly into the limelight in their defense. But they are still not ultimately responsible for this tragedy. Kelly deserved to have his views accurately represented by the BBC, rather than hyped in a way that made him the center of a grueling public storm. That very hype destroyed his privacy and led this very private man to despair. Someone at the BBC must be held accountable. And resign.http://andrewsullivan.com/