I am very harsh when it comes to Kelly. I think that is EXACTLY what he did and I think he said what Gilligan quoted. Consider that Kelly was not supposed to be talking to Gilligan in the first place. He also was extremely deceptive in his testimony about the female reporter he secretly met with.
No, I'm afraid Kelly killed himself because he was found out. I'm willing to concede he may have been struck by guilt over what he had done, but the fact is, he did it, from what I can see.
Consider:
Oral evidence Taken before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday 15 July 2003
Note the date is around the Wilson/Wilkinson business, as I previously noted. Who would coordinate such charges against Bush and Blair? I think we can venture a few guesses. I also am willing to concede Kelly thought he was being altruistic and being just anti-war, not knowingly involved in the plot per se, but I do think he said what was ascribed to him in the media.
Are you referring to the female reporter whose reports were also manipulated by the BBC? The one who was pressured to alter her story?
Were these quotes in Gilligans' reports 'in character' for Kelly? From what I've read, it doesn't appear to be so, but I may be wrong. Did Kelly join leftwing groups like Ritter did against the war? I don't know if he did but no one's ever mentioned it. He's been pretty harsh on Iraq from what I've read.
A snippet from "BIOWEAPONS: British Expert Leaves Impressive Arms Control Legacy," Richard Stone, Science Magazine
Kelly, a microbiologist by training and a senior adviser to the Proliferation and Arms Control Secretariat of the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence, was widely respected for his expertise and his courteous, but forceful, dealings with adversaries bent on hiding illicit bioweapons activities. As one of the chief weapons inspectors in Iraq, Kelly made one of the biggest discoveries of his life. In the early 1990s, searching for evidence of an offensive bioweapons effort in Iraq, Kelly and U.S. colleague Richard Spertzel noticed something suspicious: A few years earlier, Iraq had gone on a buying spree, importing 39 tons of bacterial growth media. Officials produced documents claiming that the agar was for hospitals to diagnose infections. But when the inspectors compared Iraqi imports with those into neighboring countries Iran and Syria, figuring they should be similar, "it was clear that Iraq's imports were way too high," Kelly said in an interview with Science shortly before his death.
In addition, the agar's bulk packaging did not correspond with its intended use. The inspectors accused Iraqi officials of forging the documents and importing the agar for the production of anthrax and other strains, forcing them in 1995 to acknowledge for the first time that Iraq had pursued a clandestine offensive bioweapons program....Kelly also was a key player in efforts in the early 1990s to ferret out the extent of the Soviet Union's offensive bioweapons efforts. After key details of the program emerged from two defectors in the dying days of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a grudging Russia signed a trilateral agreement in 1992 that called for inspections at facilities suspected of being engaged in recent bioweapons activities. The initiative unraveled in the mid-1990s due to Russia's reluctance to come clean on its past activities and refusal to permit inspections of military labs. Kelly, the only expert to have taken part in all the trilateral site visits, had warned recently that Russia has yet to demonstrate convincingly that it has abandoned its offensive bioweapons program.
Say, if we managed to link the anthrax in the October 2001 attacks on the US to Iraq and/or Russia, don't you think it would be obvious that the Russians hadn't abandoned their offensive bioweapons program?
How much would it be worth to keep that hid?