"Yesterday
I didn't think that the Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr Kelly
would be anything more than a literally made-for-television script.
(To the American readers, TV cameras are not allowed into the courtroom,
so the various news programmes and channels have been dramatically
recreating the day's events from the transcripts).
Today
- early I might add, I need to go to bed - I'm not so sure. According
to Murdoch's Times, John Scarlett, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence
Committee ramped up the threat that Iraq posed in his testimony
on Tuesday. Scarlett " disclosed secret raw intelligence claiming
that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction in an average
of
20 minutes — less than half the time finally published by the Government
before the war."
The Independent however points this out in its story headlined
`Spy chief undermines key plank of case for war' "John
Scarlett, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, which was
in charge of compiling the Iraq weapons dossier, revealed that
the alleged threat related not to long-range missiles, which could
hit the West, but "battlefield mortar shells or small-calibre
weaponry" that did not threaten Britain or even Iraq's neighbours."
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the smoking gun, if we pay attention
to it and don't get distracted by the other stuff they wave in your
face. Such a damning admission would not normally be made unless
they wanted to open a way for our Dear Leader Tony Blair to depart
with his saving his reputation in some way.
There
have been rumours that the descision to dump Blair and Bush was
made at the Bilderberg meeting in Versailles in July of this
year. Sometimes rumours turn out to be true.
The
inside track from the BBC
I bumped
into Mark Mardell from BBC Newsnight yesterday, and he told me
that he was covering the Hutton Inquiry. Let me relate the conversation
to you as best as I remember it:
Ed: It's
all bogus, isn't it?
MM:
What?
Ed: The
official story. I mean, last Tuesday Andrew Marr let slip on the
Ten O'Clock News that `Dr Kelly was killed,' the BBC keep referring
to the `apparent' suicide and surely with all the contact the BBC
had with Kelly, you guys have the inside track on the story.
MM: That's
a conspiracy theory. Are you seriously suggesting that if the BBC
had knowledge that the British government murdered Dr Kelly we'd
just sit on it?
Ed: Yes.
Mardell
also informed me that Newsnight's Susan Watts will probably be
going to Channel 4 News. To me it didn't look like she'd be working
for the BBC after her testimony to the inquiry.
So Mardell
calls it a `conspiracy theory'. You may recall that the same term
was used for speculation of what happened to Roberto Calvi, also
known as `God's Banker', when he was found hanging from Blackfriars
Bridge in London in what appeared to many to clearly be a masonic
murder. I'm sure that when Calvi's body was found there were elements
of the UK mainstream press who knew what really happened, but in
just the same way that the FBI manages to drown out any alternative
information on 9/11 as the only `credible' source, this happens
in the UK too.
It took
21 years for the truth about Calvi to come out. Hopefully we won't
have to wait this long for the real story about the strange and
unexpected death of Dr Kelly." -
Editor
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