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Originally posted by bilmore
Remember the BBC and Gilligan saying that Blair made up the 45 minute claim?
Remember the whole Kelly-suicide mess? Remember "Kelly was an intelligence insider"?
Now, the investigation concludes that the BBC published lies, failed to research the basic allegations, and was completely at fault, and that Blair et al. were blameless.
And, the BBC chairman resigns in disgrace.
(How come this kind of stuff gets page 47, after filling page 1 for weeks when the lies were being made?)
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Something I found interesting on NPR (not a regular listener, but it was on for election results last night and left it on this am) is that the report essentially concluded that the intelligence on the 45 minute claim was faulty and suspect, but both the intelligence folks and Blair were aware of this and decided to rely on it anyways so it wasn't a problem.
In other words, Blair would have been faulted for using bad information without the consent of British intelligence, but since B.I. was onboard, using the faulty intelligence was OK.
The other interesting piece was that they actually expected the BBC to have journalistic standards. THAT is amazing.
