:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 7.20.2003 ::
:: Kelly & the WMD mess in the UK ::
From The Guardian UK:
BBC admits Kelly was source
5pm: The BBC's credibility was called into question today after they named David Kelly as Andrew Gilligan's main source in the story which sparked the ferocious row with the government.
In a statement, the director of news Richard Sambrook revealed that the Ministry of Defence microbiologist, who committed suicide on Friday, was the principle source for reports that intelligence on Iraq was "sexed up".
ALSO:
Kelly 'hung out to dry' by MOD
Focus: A haunted man
'Events made David's life intolerable'
Kelly killed himself hours after sending an email to an unnamed journalist in which he told of 'many dark actors playing games'.
The words appeared to refer to officials at the Ministry of Defence and the UK intelligence agencies with whom he had sparred over interpretations of weapons reports, the New York Times reported.
The message gave no indication that he was depressed, and said he was waiting 'until the end of the week' before judging how his appearance before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee had gone.
It also emerged last night that Kelly took his life 24 hours after being called to give evidence in private to the the Intelligence and Security Committee at Westminster.
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