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To: gamesmistress who wrote (26737)	1/28/2004 12:32:06 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

The latest from the BBC's reporters blog. One sentence should be enshrined by the Liberal critics here. "Questioning unreliable intelligence is not the same as questioning the integrity of the government". Reporters' Log - Hutton The BBC's team of correspondents bring you news updates, reaction and comment as they watch events unfold at the publication of the Hutton report into the death of the government scientist, Dr David Kelly. Most recent postings are at the top. Shaun Ley :: BBC Radio 4 :: 1715GMT I've been clutching the (Hutton) report to me since about half past one as if it were a comfort blanket, but I must say that for anyone who works in the BBC it offers very little comfort. June Kelly :: Broadcasting House :: 1710GMT The Governors have a key role in that they regulate how the BBC operates. Lord Hutton says that when the complaints began, they should have started their own investigation and not just relied on what the management were telling them. So that is a very strong criticism indeed because it gets to the heart of their role. It will be interesting to see if the BBC brand can recover from this. Allan Robb :: Broadcasting House :: 1608GMT Events are moving fairly fast. We were told there would be a further meeting of the governors tomorrow but clearly there is one taking place now. Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, one of them, who coincidentally used to be chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee referred to throughout all this, has just walked in, and others are expected. The governors are not here in their complete membership and so it's unlikely Davies will have tendered his resignation by now. There's a huge crowd waiting here for all the governors to be in place and for the resignation. June Kelly :: Broadcasting House :: 1647GMT There had been rumours today that this was going to happen. Davies did look very grey-faced earlier indeed, as did all the senior managers at the BBC, because this is a very bad day for the BBC. Davies was known very much as a Labour Party supporter before he joined the BBC, and when the governors backed Gilligan there were questions raised, and it was thought Davies might be trying to flex his muscles and show how independent he was. Andrew Marr :: Westminster :: 1632GMT I don't think anyone expected this report to be quite this damning. I understand the chairman of the BBC board of governors is to resign. This was a decision effectively taken in the last few hours. I think it is unthinkable that after all this will say nothing, it is a complicated organisation and in about half an hour the Board of Governors will meet and digest what Hutton has said and come to some conclusions. June Kelly :: Broadcasting House :: 1630GMT Greg Dyke is of course the editor-in-chief of the BBC. We've now heard from the Director General and it was a very robust statement. Certainly he is standing four-square behind this story. Guto Harri :: Central London :: 1615GMT I think most ministers and senior figures in the Conservative party and the Liberal Democrats overall think that the BBC is a pretty good thing, and they don't really want to trash it. Now what we heard Alastair Campbell say of course is that because the reputation of the BBC is so high across the world that he took particular exception to the fact the BBC, in his point of view, was actually falling short of its own standards. I think there will be people who will try to gently exploit this, to bully the BBC, to get rough whenever we are at odds with them. I think they will be a little bit more aggressive with us in the future. Bridget Kendall :: Westminster :: 1555GMT The Inquiry could have been broader. When Lord Hutton made it clear he wasn't going to consider broader questions, it was also clear that probably there would be a lot of criticism of the BBC. He also said that he wasn't going to get into discussing the veracity of the intelligence. A very important quote from him: "Questioning unreliable intelligence is not the same as questioning the integrity of the government". news.bbc.co.uk