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ガーデイアン：ケリー博士の未亡人が自宅でフーン国防相に説明を求めた。で、誰がケリーを名指したのか？
表紙の見出しと記事の見出しが微妙に違う。
表紙の見出しでは、ケリー未亡人がフーンを自宅に呼んだであり、記事の見出しでは、フーンがケリー未亡人を訪問したのである。
しかし、本文の冒頭では、未亡人がフーンを自宅に呼んだのである。
ケリーを名指した「犯人」探しが始まっている。ブレアとフーンは、互いに相手に、おっ付け会っている。
この記事の最後には、首相官邸の広報官、トム・ケリーが、フィナンシャル・タイムズ記事で自分が情報源とされたことについて、ガーデイアンに否定発言をしている。
これが「紳士の国」とかの実情であってみれば、アメリカや日本の酬状も、驚くに当たらない。
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Kelly widow calls Hoon to account
Politics: David Kelly's widow calls the defence secretary to her Oxfordshire home to discuss circumstances which led to the suicide of her husband.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/kelly/story/0,13747,1004678,00.html
Hoon pays visit to scientist's widow
Richard Norton-Taylor, Michael White and Nicholas Watt in Hong Kong
Thursday July 24, 2003
The Guardian
The widow of David Kelly yesterday called the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, to her Oxfordshire home to discuss the circumstances which led to the suicide of the government's senior biological and chemical weapons adviser.
The meeting took place as details emerged of Dr Kelly's status as an adviser within the defence hierarchy, fuelling the dispute between the BBC and the government, which Lord Hutton is now set to examine.
The Kelly family has complained about the biologist's treatment at the hands of the Ministry of Defence.
Mr Hoon is likely to have been questioned about his department's hotly contested role in identifying Dr Kelly, who had been warned that his name might leak out.
The defence secretary, fighting for his political survival, spent 75 minutes with Mrs Kelly at her home in Abingdon, six days after her husband's apparent suicide, which came after giving highly publicised evidence on his role - posthumously confirmed - as the prime source of the BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan.
Defence officials declined to indicate what had been discussed. But Mr Hoon routinely sees the grieving families of servicemen killed in action, if they so request it, and faces whatever concerns they may have.
"People ask some very pertinent questions," one said.
The meeting took place as a fuller picture emerged of the central role Dr Kelly played in advising the government on Iraq's chemical and biological weapons programme.
The scientist sat on a number of high-level MoD committees at which intelligence assessments were discussed. Asked whether Dr Kelly would have had access to up-to-date intelligence, a defence source replied: "Yes, it would have been no good if he had not been."
Dr Kelly did not brief Mr Hoon, who never met him. He briefed those who did. His advice had been sought by M16.
It is understood Dr Kelly was a member of a high-level working group responsible for processing intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme and deciding what information about it could be published - for example in answer to questions from MPs.
As the government's chief chemical and biological warfare expert on Iraq he was security cleared to read sensitive intelligence material. But he was not the "senior intelligence source" claimed in some BBC reports.
As Lord Hutton, the judge appointed to investigate the handling of Dr Kelly, reads himself into the case, aides confirmed he may take some evidence before the TV cameras.
The BBC has confirmed that it has a tape of its science editor Susan Watts' interview with Dr Kelly. It will be given to Lord Hutton.
Also expected to be handed over - instead of being published today - is the transcript of Gilligan's second crossexamination by the Commons foreign affairs committee, in which he denies that MPs' claim that he had changed his story about his sources. A statement from the committee is expected at noon.
The BBC tape's confirmation that Dr Kelly had said ministers were "desperate" for information about Saddam's immediate military threat - about which Dr Kelly was sceptical - is regarded as a crucial part of its defence.
No 10 says it has no quarrel with Watts' reports, which acknowledge the crucial point: that Dr Kelly "was not disputing that the 45-minute claim was included in the dossier by the intelligence services", rather than inserted by Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's communications director, against their will.
In a separate development, Tom Kelly, No 10's spokesman, denied a Guardian report yesterday that he had been "furnishing information" which actively helped the Financial Times identify Dr Kelly.'
One of Lord Hutton's likely witnesses, Mr Blair, yesterday cut short his round-the-world trip as he fled Hong Kong a day early to escape the devastating typhoon Imbudo which has killed six people in the Philippines and threatened the safety of his flight.
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