tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post4208744109200924942..comments2023-10-02T15:01:43.213+01:00Comments on Chilcot's Cheating Us: The Death of David Kelly - The vanishing "safe house"Andrew Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03829322263100808179noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-24399999164851875902011-07-04T05:00:33.660+01:002011-07-04T05:00:33.660+01:00Andrew, it is worth repeating some of the words in...Andrew, it is worth repeating some of the words in THE PRESSURE by Mick Smith <i>et al</i> above:<br /><br /><i>It was not long before both the foreign affairs committee and the intelligence and security committee said they wanted to talk to a by now very unhappy Dr Kelly who had been taken to an MoD "safe house".<br /><br />The MoD insisted that he was being protected from the press and would not be going home "for quite a while". He resurfaced to face the foreign affairs committee on Tuesday, looking tired and thoroughly demoralised.<br /><br />..... and to make sure that he did not say anything else inconvenient to the press, he was accompanied by two quite obvious minders, who sat behind him throughout the proceedings.<br /><br />They were almost certainly Ministry of Defence policemen. After the hearing was over, they bundled Mr Kelly off as quickly as they could.<br /><br />The Labour MP Andrew Mackinlay demanded ferociously that Dr Kelly provide a list of all the journalists he had spoken to in the last six months.<br /><br />It was Mr Mackinlay's list, due to be delivered to the committee yesterday, which Dr Kelly had spent the past week compiling, the MoD said. "His line manager, the Head of the Proliferation and Arms Control Unit was talking to Dr Kelly putting the list together," a spokesman said. No doubt there were more questions to be asked. What had he said to that journalist? Who had authorised this conversation?</i><br /><br />[Er, he was compiling it for nearly a week before Mackinlay had asked him to???]<br /><i><br /><br />By now the pressure of living in the MoD "safe house" was getting to him. He was a family man, happiest at his home in the Oxfordshire village of Southmoor where his wife Janice was a local historian.<br /><br />Tom Mangold, a television journalist and close friend, said Mrs Kelly had told him her husband was deeply unhappy and furious at how events had unfurled.<br /><br />"She told me he had been under considerable stress, that he was very, very angry about what had happened at the committee, that he wasn't well, that he had been to a safe house, he hadn't liked that, he wanted to come home."</i><br /><br />Shades of Gareth Williams. Did Dr Kelly die in the safe house and the story about visits to Cornwall, family meals, sending emails, meeting Mrs Absalom a load of balderdash???felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-40172925319145019702011-05-17T18:28:09.408+01:002011-05-17T18:28:09.408+01:00The identical wording of Tom Mangold is also used ...The identical wording of Tom Mangold is also used in the Daily Telegraph of 19 July 2003 <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1436522/The-pressure.html" rel="nofollow">The Pressure"</a> By Michael Smith, Toby Helm, Andrew Sparrow and Ben Brogan <br /><br />Did Mangold send a press release round Fleet Street?felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-63387541790274071052011-02-09T08:25:01.030+00:002011-02-09T08:25:01.030+00:00Andrew
I just cannot believe the story that Dr Ke...Andrew<br /><br />I just cannot believe the story that Dr Kelly spent those nights at his daughter's in Oxford when it is reported at <a href="http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/evidence/fac_1_0013.pdf" rel="nofollow">FAC/1/0013</a> that Dr Kelly can't answer questions for the FAC because he has no access to his diaries in nearby Southmoor. (surely the alleged journalists have all packed up and gone, and I doubt they ever came anyway apart from that fishy <i>journalist</i> caught trespassing in the grounds by Rachel)<br /><br />My feeling is that Dr Kelly was not a free man at this stage and perhaps earlier too.felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-11515403098771816142011-02-04T07:26:47.604+00:002011-02-04T07:26:47.604+00:00It beggars belief that Dr David Kelly did not have...It beggars belief that Dr David Kelly did not have any email access in 2003 during the time he reportedly <i>cut and run</i> and stayed variously in Somerset , Cornwall or with his daughter in Oxford, and, if we are to believe it, only caught up on light social gossip on the morning of 17th July.felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.com