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ガーデイアン：日本では「アレスター・キャンベル報道戦略担当局長」として紹介されているブレアの側近の名前あり。
BBCは、調査委員会に提出するテープの一部を公開しつつ、政府批判を続ける模様なり。
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1006939,00.html
Bully Ministers will wreck us - BBC chairman
Fierce attack by Gavyn Davies fuels dossier row, as it is revealed that Kelly named Campbell in taped interview
Kamal Ahmed, political editor
Sunday July 27, 2003
The Observer
The fractured relationship between the BBC and the Government took another plunge last night when Gavyn Davies, the BBC chairman, said that the corporation's independence was being threatened by political bullying.
Davies, using unusually strong language, said the BBC would not be cowed and that Government-backed attacks on the corporation amounted to an attempt to undermine the organisation's integrity and the work of the BBC governors.
'Our integrity is under attack,' he said. 'We are chastised for taking a different view on editorial matters from that of the Government and its supporters.
'Because we have the temerity to do this, it is hinted a system that has protected the BBC for 80 years should be swept away and replaced by an external regulator that will "bring the BBC to heel".'
In an interview last week, Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, said that she would see if the Hutton Inquiry into the death of the Government scientist, Dr David Kelly, had any impact on the BBC's application for the renewal of its charter, which is being considered by the Government.
Davies's words, in an article for the Sunday Telegraph , will add fresh fuel to the raging row between the BBC and the Government over who was to blame for Kelly's death.
It also marks the end of a shaky and informal truce supposedly called between the two sides after Kelly's body was found in a field near his Oxfordshire home. He had slit his left wrist.
Although Blair asked for a period of 'respect and restraint', the BBC was goaded into action after last week's article in The Observer by Peter Mandelson. The key Blair ally and former Cabinet Minister said that the BBC's journalism - accusing Downing Street of 'sexing up' intelligence material against Saddam Hussein - was shoddy.
Davies said the BBC governors, the independent panel that oversees standards, were a 'barrier between the BBC's editorial processes and political bullying'.
The battle showed no signs of abating last night with Peter Hain, the Leader of the House of Commons, accusing the BBC of acting like a 'tabloid newspaper' in its reporting of the intelligence claims.
Such is the importance of the issue that Greg Dyke, the director-general of the BBC, and Davies have both cancelled their summer holidays as they fight to save the corporation's reputation.
Dyke was due to go on holiday to Peru with his family and Davies was due in the South of France. Richard Sambrook, the director of news, is also likely to cancel his holiday in August.
BBC sources said there was a 'degree of concern' that the governors could face criticism from the inquiry over their decision to give a 'clean bill of health' to reports by the BBC's defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan.
It was the revelation that Kelly was the source of the original Gilligan story that led to what the Kelly family described as 'intolerable pressure' being applied to him.
Sources have also told The Observer that the BBC is increasingly confident of its claims that Alastair Campbell, Number 10 director of communications and strategy, was behind efforts to strengthen intelligence.
In a taped conversation with Newsnight journalist and science editor Susan Watts, Kelly is believed to mention 'Campbell' or Downing Street three times unprompted.
Downing Street made no complaint about the Watts broadcast, which went out on BBC2 less than a week after Gilligan's original reports on Radio Four's Today programme. She did not name Campbell in the report.
The tape, described as 'a few minutes long', will be sent to the inquiry this week. Broadcasting sources says that it backs up much of Gilligan's original claims.
In further evidence to be sent to the inquiry, the BBC will also argue that there were a number of inconsistencies in Kelly's evidence to the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
The BBC will say that Kelly's description of how Campbell entered the conversation with Gilligan, who claims Kelly named him when questioned on who was behind the 'sexing up', does not square with the facts and that some of his testimony was evasive.
Some members of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee are believed to agree with the BBC view.
The committee will push this week to publish a transcript of evidence given to it in private sessions by Gilligan in which it is claimed the BBC reporter contradicts himself.
It was Gilligan's evidence that led him to be described as an 'unsatisfactory witness' by the committee. He has hit back saying that the committee was a 'kangaroo court'.
MPs on the committee are angry at what they see as an attempt by Davies to bounce them into withdrawing plans to publish Gilligan's evidence last Thursday.
In an emergency session on Tuesday, members of the committee will tell the chairman, the Labour MP Donald Anderson, that the committee should not have been forced into a corner by the BBC.
Anderson believed that Davies, who called him with a personal plea that Gilligan's evidence be withheld, was suggesting that the BBC journalist was 'under stress'.
Anderson has told colleagues he could not countenance the publication of Gilligan's evidence following the suggestion it could tip Gilligan 'over the edge'. The BBC says the wrong interpretation was placed on Davies's words.
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