tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post7686896355980174994..comments2023-10-02T15:01:43.213+01:00Comments on Chilcot's Cheating Us: The Death of David Kelly - Number 10 statement on 29th May 2003Andrew Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03829322263100808179noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-53779846784896192792011-11-04T18:38:37.511+00:002011-11-04T18:38:37.511+00:00On 20 July 2003, David Aaronovitch wrote a piece i...On 20 July 2003, David Aaronovitch wrote a piece in the observer,<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/jul/20/pressandpublishing.politicsandthemedia" rel="nofollow"></a> deliberately linking the death of Vince Foster in the USA with that of Kelly as a kind of limited hangout. (the Vince Foster case is also far from closed) However Aaro writes:<br /><i>"The response to the suicide of David Kelly, who may have been the victim of a Westminster/newspaper feeding frenzy, is to have another, even bigger one. For papers to have decided, as several have, without the discovery of so much as a suicide note, that named Ministers have blood on their hands, is outrageous.....The listener is encouraged to believe, however, that, despite his misgivings, Kelly was not Gilligan's main source, and that Gilligan got the most damning information from someone else altogether. A someone else who, rightly, he will not name....</i> (commenting on a John Humphrys - Scott Ritter Radio 4 interview)..<i>On Friday [18 July 2003] night, Jon Snow on Channel 4 News threw in a reference to a 'report' suggesting that, far from Kelly turning himself in, he had had his personal organiser rifled by the Ministry Old Bill, and been given a verbal warning. Fifteen hours later, I have yet to hear this claim repeated....The 45-minute claim, said Gilligan, 'went to the heart of the Government's case', yet, according to the source, it was a claim that had been added at the last minute by 'Campbell'.........<b>Why, for instance, did it take a week for Gilligan's meeting with his source to translate into an item on the Today programme? It couldn't possibly be that it was timed to coincide with Tony Blair's visit to Iraq on the same day, could it? There is the whiff of agenda here. </b></i> A valid last question. Why indeed?felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.com