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> Well, there is nothing that is terribly new in that 20 minute broadcast.
Just
> confirms suspicions that 1- the intelligence knew there was no international threath 2- ministers
> and Bliar made sure they had deniability.
First of all, you've got to keep in mind the exact circumstances of this morning's interview: about
one week after the Hutton-whitewash, by the same program (the Today Program) that sparked the whole
"Hutton-Kelly-BBC" row and put the defence minister in an extremely difficult position. But above
all, during this interview - following yesterday's Common's scandal about the PM's ignorance about
the 45min WMD claim - the defence minister actually gets caught with his pants down: in a follow up
report towards the end of the program (see other audio-file), we hear some quotes by the minister
from the time of the Hutton-inquiry, where he confirms to be well aware that the public opinion
(misguided by major press outlets) thought that the 45-minute claim referred to ballistic weapon
delivery capabilities, and that this was exactly the ("imminent threat") issue/argument at the time:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today5_hoon_20040205.ram
The defence minister says there that he 'recalls' the press articles... in other press interviews,
he has earlier said that he didn't bother to correct public opinion because that would be something
that would have been "too difficult" to achieve...
The conclusions of this are far reaching, which is why the journalist (John Humphrey) keeps pressing
the issue:
1. Tony Blair should have asked questions about this '45mins imminent threat WMD' issue, because it
concerned the security of the nation. Now Blair says he didn't bother to ask... despite the fact
that he toke the country to war over the issue.
2. Geoff Hoon is lying, and actually contradicting earlier statements in the press and before the
Hutton inquiry (under oath).
3. David Kelly, whose name was leaked to the press by Geoff Hoon's office, under supervision of Tony
Blair who said that he was "empathlically not" aware of the naming strategy, despite the fact
that Lord Hutton, of all people, found that the PM indeed was chairing the precise meeting where
this naming strategy was decided upon - well David Kelly was right when he said
Blair's press spokesman, Alistair Campbell.
4. Andrew Gilligan, the BBC's Today Program journalist who had claimed the
found that AG did not have the necessary proof to substantiate this claim, and AG last week was
forced to quit the BBC; well AG is hereby proven right:
interview !!!
This radio interview is a real shocker !!! This is not the normal way BBC journalists interview
politicians,... but given the particular circumstances, and the accurate exposure of the exact lies
by TB and GH, that were the issue of the Hutton-report/whitewash, I believe John Humphry was
absolutely right to press the issue in the way that he did.
Andrew Gilligan and Greg Dyke should be restored in their job at the BBC. Geoff Hoon and Tony Blair
are not ordinary politicians, lying as part of their job, but instead they are national traitors and
international war criminals, and they should therefore be made to resign...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/audio/geoffhoon.ram
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today5_hoon_20040205.ram