Friday, January 30, 2004
Hutton Links. posted by Richard Seymour
Here's a few useful bits of material on the Hutton Report for all those arch-cynics out there. Have your worst doubts confirmed before it all disappears down the memory-hole.Rod Liddle, editor of the Today programme when Gilligan coughed up the dirt, gives his acerbic take on Lord Hutton's atrocity.
David Miller, trenchant critic of the mass media, rehearses the salient truths which Hutton ignores.
Kelly's adversaries attempted to smear him on account of his faith
Most voters think the Hutton Report was a whitewash
Intelligence expert Tom Mangold's e-mail correspondence with Peter Horrocks reveals that the original intelligence suggested that Saddam would be able "to authorise a strike within forty-five minutes ... Anyone who knows anything about biological warfare knows that it is a slow and cumbersome form of warfare, requiring careful mix of precursor chemicals before loading ... It would be well-nigh impossible to deploy such WMD within 45 minutes from a standing start."
Susan Watt's conversations with David Kelly reveal that a) He had serious doubts about the 45-minute claim, b) he expressed these to the government and c) they vigorously pressed for the claim to be inserted, regardless.