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初の投稿で見よう見真似です。よろしくおねがいします。
調べものをしていてたまたまTelegraphの記事（下のとは別のもの）にヒットしました。
めったに見ない新聞なのですが、一応トップページも確認してみたら、下の記事がありました。
（トップページはケリー博士関連記事４件、BBC記者関連記事２件など。）
It is important that he [Lord Hutton] does what we asked him to do. I do not think it would be sensible to do any more. というブレアの発言がとても気になりました。
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/22/nkell22.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/07/22/ixportaltop.html
Blair tries to rein in Kelly judge over scope of inquiry
By Toby Helm and Andrew Sparrow
(Filed: 22/07/2003)
Tony Blair was on collision course last night with the judge he has appointed to investigate the death of Dr David Kelly over the scope of his inquiry.
The Prime Minister appeared to contradict Lord Hutton, the 72-year-old judge, who insisted yesterday that he would determine which areas he investigated.
In a statement setting out his objectives, Lord Hutton said his remit was "urgently to conduct an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr Kelly".
But, asserting his independence, he added: "I make it clear that it will be for me to decide as I think right within my terms of reference the matters which will be the subject of my investigation."
Shortly afterwards Mr Blair, speaking in Beijing on the latest leg of his Far East tour, said he would "co-operate fully" with the inquiry. If necessary he would break off from his holiday in Barbados to give evidence.
But he said: "It is important that he [Lord Hutton] does what we asked him to do. I do not think it would be sensible to do any more." He rejected calls to extend the inquiry to look at the wider argument of whether the Government exaggerated the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons.
Calls for Lord Hutton to have the widest possible remit were supported by Opposition leaders and anti-war Labour MPs. They said it would be impossible for the inquiry to establish the truth behind Dr Kelly's apparent suicide without looking into questions of how the Government built its case for war in Iraq.
Dr Kelly, 59, a weapons expert employed by the Ministry of Defence, who had worked extensively in Iraq, was found dead last Friday five miles from his Oxfordshire home. His left wrist had been slit.
The BBC confirmed at the weekend that Dr Kelly had been the main source for a contentious report in which Andrew Gilligan, a defence correspondent for Radio 4's Today, alleged that Downing Street had "sexed up" a dossier on Iraq to strengthen the case for war.
After police confirmed the scientist's death, the Prime Minister immediately set up the judicial inquiry under Lord Hutton. The Tories said they feared Mr Blair was blocking the wider inquiry necessary to establish the truth behind the apparent suicide.
They want a full public inquiry that would look into Gilligan's claims that intelligence services were uneasy about how Downing Street was presenting the case for war. Oliver Letwin, the shadow home secretary, described Mr Blair's behaviour as "disturbing".
"No sooner do we have reassuring indications from Lord Hutton that his inquiry will be as wide-ranging as he feels it needs to be than we hear from the Prime Minister that he wishes it to be as circumscribed as possible. Surely, by now, the Government must have learned the virtue of genuine transparency."
Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary, said it would be difficult to conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances leading to the death without probing "some of the prior issues" which Dr Kelly discussed with Gilligan.
Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader, said "all hell would break loose" if the Government made life difficult for Lord Hutton. "Woe betide any minister or civil servant or any political adviser who tries to put roadblocks in his way."
The Opposition parties want Lord Hutton to establish why the Government allowed Dr Kelly's name to leak to the press.
Mr Blair's official spokesman played down any dispute over the inquiry. "The terms of reference are there and the terms of reference, as he says, are urgently to conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly. It is up to him how to conduct the inquiry."
As the BBC stood by Gilligan's story, Clare Short, the former international development secretary, said Government attacks on the corporation were a deliberate "distraction" from the issue of why Mr Blair led the country to war.
"This is all a smokescreen. There has to be an inquiry about the pressures brought on Dr Kelly. This assault on the BBC is just a complete distraction from the main questions about how we got to war in Iraq."
Peter Mandelson, a key ally of the Prime Minister, attacked the BBC's "crass error" in standing by Gilligan.
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