Another Blair Witch Project

Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, September 3, 2003 | By Harlan Ullman

[JohnHuang2]

Not long ago, a low-budget movie about ghosts and goblins, called "The Blair Witch Project," was a box office success. Now, another Blair is plagued by ghosts. This Blair happens to be Britain's Prime Minister.

American media have not picked up on the seriousness of Tony Blair's political woes. Horrible storms, power outages, the California political spectacle over the governor's recall election and bad news from Iraq have dominated the news in American this summer. In Great Britain, the ghost is in the form of a deceased Ministry of Defense scientist, David Kelly, who apparently committed suicide in July after having been "outed" or identified as the source for an explosive BBC story in May on the Iraq war and allegations of Number Ten and the Prime Minister's Officehaving grossly misrepresented the threat.

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, September 3, 2003

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[swilhelm73]

I'm amazed to see this BS in the Washington Times.

We now know at the very least that Gilligan and the BBC 'sexed up' their sensational reporting. It is quite possible that Gilligan completely made up what he reported and never actually got any such information from Kelly in the first place - who apparently supported the war, and in a parallel interview with another reporter made none of the statements Gilligan attributed to him in his own 'reporting'.

Now that Kelly is conviently dead, the BBC can insist he told them whatever they want, even though they denied he was their source at one point, and claimed their source was tied to the parts of the dossier they were disputing - which Kelly was not.

The BBC has completely disgraced itself. From a political perspective, the extreme to which the BBC went, and the fact this is now public knowledge is very good for Bush, and at least in the long term Blair...