Posted on 09/22/2003 11:21:54 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:08:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LONDON — British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon yesterday denied the government conspired to publicly identify a weapons adviser caught in a political storm over the government's case for war in Iraq.
Appearing before an inquiry, Mr. Hoon rejected a suggestion that a series of statements and briefings by officials amounted to a deliberate strategy to identify arms expert David Kelly as the possible source for a British Broadcasting Corp. report that the government exaggerated the threat from Iraqi weapons.
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