The Scotsman reveals evidence suppressed by Lord Hutton: "August 26: An e-mail showed Downing Street made a desperate final plea for stronger evidence for the dossier: 'No 10 wants the document to be as strong as possible within the boundaries of the available intelligence. this is therefore a last (!) call for any items of intelligence that the agencies think can and should be used.' September 1: Janice Kelly, Dr Kelly's widow, said the Ministry of Defence told her husband he would not be named and he felt betrayed when he was. September 3: Dr Brian Jones, head of the Defence Intelligence Staff analysing WMD, said the 'shutters came down' before the reservations about the dossier in the intelligence community - especially the 45-minute claim - had been discussed. 'Our reservations about the dossier were not reflected in the final version.'" And they call that an investigation?

"One BBC insider described it as 'an old man's report that is simply wrong'...Austin Mitchell, the Labour MP for Great Grimsby, said: 'It is a whitewash, basically. The danger is that it is so one-sided a report that it is going to lose credibility. People just aren't going to believe it.' Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader, said: 'The report leaves big questions unanswered, because inevitably they were not addressed. We are still no closer to determining whether this country went to war on a false prospectus. We need an independent inquiry to find out why that happened.' A last minute plea by David Kelly's family was ignored by Hutton: 'The Government made a conscious decision to cause Dr Kelly's identity to be revealed and it did so in order to assist it in the battle with the BBC."

CNN reports: "The one part of Hutton's statement that brought audible gasps from the journalists in court was when he explained how he had changed his mind on whether the government had set upon a 'dishonorable, underhand or duplicitous' strategy to leak Kelly's name to the press. Hutton's questions during the hearings had revealed that he had been pursuing that line. But faced with evidence [read PRESSURE] from government officials -- including Blair and Hoon -- he had come to the conclusion they were merely trying to guard against accusations of a cover-up, he said.' At one point, veteran criminal psychologist Patricia Rodrigues-Walsh, Hutton stood up in the courtroom and announced her belief that Kelly was murdered. "Hutton told her politely and firmly time was short, it was time to move on."

This week, in his much-awaited report, Lord Hutton "cut off the head of the messenger," pinning the full blame for David Kelly's death on the BBC. The report lets Blair and Co. off the hook for "sexing up" the Iraq dossier and for any blame in Kelly's death - despite compelling evidence to the contrary. The British public isn't buying it, however. Letters to the BBC are running over 75% in support of BBC and their assertions about the government, with a high number of those supporting Hutton's findings coming from outside the UK. Just like Bush, Blair and his kowtowers (Hutton included) have put their wagons in a circle AGAINST the people of their own nation.

"David Kelly was at the center of a power struggle between Tony Blair's administration and the BBC, because he was the source of a story which claimed that a WMD report had been 'sexed up'. In the middle of the controversy, Kelly was found dead near his house. The cause of death was ruled to be a suicide -- a slit wrist. An inquiry into the circumstances around David Kelly's death ('The Hutton Inquiry') unearthed some dirt on the Blair administration regarding WMD claims. As London's Evening Standard reports, 'Three senior specialists said they could not accept the evidence of how Dr Kelly died presented to the Hutton Inquiry.' In a letter to The Guardian, they say that it is 'highly improbable' that Kelly died from the wound in his left wrist. The cut would have caused blood loss of about a pint, and a loss of about three liters is necessary for death."

The Age reports: "A British coroner is prepared to open a new inquest into the death of David Kelly, the weapons expert at the centre of claims the Blair Government 'sexed up' intelligence on Iraq. A judicial inquiry, headed by senior judge Lord Hutton, is set to report potentially explosive findings on Dr Kelly's death next Wednesday but Nicholas Gardiner, the Oxfordshire Coroner, believes the inquiry was unable to examine all the evidence. At least five witnesses refused to release their statements to the Hutton inquiry and police handed Lord Hutton only 70 of the 300 witness statements they took during their inquiries, the newspaper said. 'What their motives migh be for not handing over their statements I have no idea but I think I ought to see them.' Mr Gardiner intends to meet senior police officers this week to demand access to documents unseen by Lord Hutton." And so the plot thickens...

"Tony Blair chaired the crucial meeting which agreed how the name of the government scientist David Kelly would become public, a senior government official confirmed today. Sir Kevin Tebbitt, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence, told the Hutton inquiry that the meeting agreed a 'change of stance', which would allow press officers to confirm Dr Kelly's name if it was put to them by journalists. Sir Kevin denied that the 'change of stance' amounted to a strategy to reveal Dr Kelly... Sir Kevin's remarks were jumped on by Michael Ancram, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, as further evidence of Mr Blair's complicity in publicly naming Dr Kelly. He said in a statement: 'Kevin Tebbit's evidence is yet another damning indictment of Tony Blair's role in the naming of Dr Kelly... That meeting was chaired by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's denials are now shown to be a sham.'" Blair's gang outed David Kelly, and Bush's gang leaked Valerie Plame's identity.

The UK Independent reports: "Andrew Gilligan admitted yesterday making mistakes in his original broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on 29 May. But Mr Gilligan stood by the thrust of his report and stressed that he had been proved right subsequently by much of the evidence since heard at the Hutton inquiry. Here, The Independent judges Mr Gilligan's original claims against what we now know about the drafting of the Government's Iraq dossier in September last year, which was said to have been 'sexed up'... the guts of the Gilligan [45-minute] claim, has been vindicated by the inquiry evidence. The inquiry heard this week that a memo was written on behalf of the DIS by Dr Brian Jones, head of its WMD section, objecting to the claim as it appeared in the dossier. Dr Jones and his chemical expert wrote further formal complaints."

"Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, was implicated for the first time yesterday in the naming of David Kelly in documents freshly released by the Hutton inquiry," reports the Independent. "The documents also show Mr Straw playing a part in the 'sexing up' of the September Iraq arms dossier, urging the strengthening of references to weapons of mass destruction and demanding a 'killer paragraph'. But it is the revelations about his department's role in the disclosure of Dr Kelly's identity which is potentially the most damaging for Mr Straw...In hitherto undisclosed internal memorandums, two of Mr Straw's most senior officials appear to be pushing for Dr Kelly's name to be disclosed to the media. One says he will 'be happy' for the scientist to be named, while the other declares this will not cause a problem for the Foreign Office. It would be extraordinary if these comments were made without Mr Straw's knowledge, Whitehall sources said."

BBC reports: "As Dr Kelly's widow and one of his daughters prepared to give evidence to the Hutton inquiry via a video link today, an article written by the government scientist became known. It said military action was the only way of 'conclusively disarming' Saddam Hussein. The article, written anonymously for a report on Iraq shortly before the war but never published, has been sent to Lord Hutton's inquiry into Dr Kelly's death. His views, those of an expert on Iraq's WMD, could give Tony Blair some unexpected relief amid growing doubts the war was justified." Well, now - isn't this convenient for Blair? A little TOO convenient, in fact.

UK Observer reports: "Tony Blair gave the go-ahead to the strategy that led to Dr David Kelly being named, believing it was 'inevitable' that the weapons expert would eventually be unmasked. A confidential Cabinet Office note of a series of meetings held in Number 10 reveals that the Prime Minister supported 'making public that a source had come forward', but left the specifics of the two-stage 'naming strategy' to the Ministry of Defence. Further evidence released last night also revealed that John Scarlett, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, said that there was 'general agreement' within Number 10 that Kelly's name would be revealed... it was becoming clear that [Blair's] role in the naming of Kelly will be a key part of the judge's questioning. Hutton will also ask the Prime Minister about attempts to strengthen the September dossier by Campbell, who sent 15 amendments to intelligence chiefs writing the document."

Britain's Sunday Herald reports: "A staggering 6000 pages of documents released yesterday afternoon by the Hutton Inquiry [into whistle-blowing WMD expert David Kelly's peculiar death] include e-mails from Number 10 and briefing papers that confirm Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's communications chief, had been actively involved in discussions on the compilation of the Iraq dossier with John Scarlett, chairman of the joint intelligence committee (JIC). Campbell wrote: 'I had many discussions with the chairman of the JIC on presentational issues arising from the dossier and, in common with other officials, made drafting suggestions as the document evolved through various drafts.' That contradicts the evidence he gave to the inquiry last week... He had said that he had 'no input, output or influence' on the dossier at any stage and that his own contributions had been 'observations' rather than 'suggestions'..."

The Scotsman reports: "Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, will next Thursday be asked by the Hutton Inquiry if he ordered Dr David Kelly to be used as a weapon of last resort to settle Downing Street's running battle with the BBC. The Prime Minister faces questions about whether Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, was acting under orders when he sent Dr Kelly to be grilled by a televised committee of MPs - against a senior civil servant's advice. Mr Blair's evidence will be heard the day after Mr Hoon appears in front of Lord Hutton's inquiry to mount a vigorous defence of his behaviour, possibly arguing that he was passing on No10's view that Dr Kelly should be exposed."

From Reuters: "Iraq weapons expert David Kelly eerily predicted his death six months ago, telling a British diplomat that if Baghdad was attacked he would be found 'dead in the woods,' the inquiry into his death revealed on Thursday. The premonition was recounted at the investigation into the suicide of Kelly, sucked into the heart of a row over whether Prime Minister Tony Blair's inner circle hyped evidence about Iraq's weapons capability to win support for the war. Blair is due to testify to the hearing next week and the inquiry is expected to finishing taking evidence late next month, judge Lord Hutton announced on Thursday."

BBC News reports: "It takes a lot to shock journalists, but a UK diplomat's revelation that Dr David Kelly had told him he would probably be 'found dead in the woods' if the UK invaded Iraq did just that. An audible gasp went up as David Broucher told the Hutton inquiry how the weapons expert had made what he thought was a 'throwaway' remark during a meeting in Geneva... And then it happened. The bombshell. Mr Broucher's own weapon of mass destruction. As Dr Kelly was leaving their rendez vous, he asked him what would happen if Iraq is invaded. 'He said: 'I will probably be found dead in the woods',' recalled Mr Broucher. Rufford: Kelly said he had been 'through the wringer' 'He said: 'What?',' came the whispered cry from the back of the court. Suddenly the press bench jumped back into action. Journalists gasped. Pens scribbled furiously. Those who hadn't been listening closely turned their attention to the stenographer's note as it tickered away on screen."