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(回答先: ブレア英首相最大の試練 専門家自殺で２８日調査報告（共同通信） 投稿者 エンセン 日時 2004 年 1 月 24 日 20:16:08)
なぜ「自殺」と報じるのか！ガーデイアン：ケリーの「死」Did Dr Kelly kill himself?
似非紳士は、朝日新聞だけではない。共同通信も信用するな！
日本の大手メディアは、全部、腐っている。丸投げ投稿は、垂れ流し報道捜査の手先になる。
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hutton/story/0,13822,1130143,00.html
Hutton inquiry: the 15 crucial questions
Richard Norton-Taylor
Saturday January 24, 2004
The Guardian
Over 25 days last summer, Lord Hutton heard from 72 witnesses and saw 787 documents containing more than 10,000 pages of evidence, all related to the issue he was asked to investigate: the circumstances surrounding the death of the weapons expert David Kelly.
On Monday the main parties to the inquiry will receive copies of the report and on Wednesday at lunchtime Lord Hutton will make his findings public.
Many of the issues he must consider are highly complex. These are the important questions he must answer - and what his verdict might be.
1 Was Tony Blair responsible for the policy which ultimately led to the naming of David Kelly?
One of the most significant issues to emerge from the inquiry.
Lord Hutton did not ask Mr Blair about an exchange with journalists shortly after Dr Kelly's death during which he was asked: "Did you authorise anyone in Downing Street or in the MoD to release Kelly's name?" Mr Blair replied: "Emphatically not".
However, at the inquiry Lord Hutton heard Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, and his top civil servant, Sir Kevin Tebbit, point the finger at Downing Street. Sir Kevin said: "A policy decision on the handling of this matter had not been taken until the prime minister's meeting [on July 8 last year at No 10]."
2 If the prime minister was not responsible, who was?
It became clear during the inquiry that the "outing strategy" was agreed at Downing St in the presence of Mr Blair's closest advisers, including Alastair Campbell, then his communications chief, and John Scarlett, chairman of the joint intelligence committee.
What is unclear is who exactly was responsible for the decision to confirm Dr Kelly's name when journalists put it to the MoD press office.
3 Should Dr Kelly have been forced to give evidence to parliament's intelligence and security committee and the Commons foreign affairs committee?
An important issue. The appearances - especially at the televised foreign affairs committee - clearly distressed Dr Kelly. From the Ministry of Defence, Sir Kevin said before the inquiry that he had thought Dr Kelly should not be made to appear but was overruled by Mr Hoon.
4 Did the MoD show proper "duty of care" to Dr Kelly?
The inquiry learnt that officials warned Dr Kelly his name would become public. Bryan Wells, Dr Kelly's line manager, warned him his name was out in a hasty and interrupted mobile phone call. On the morning he went for his final walk, Dr Kelly was phoned by MoD officials asking about all his contacts with journalists so they could answer MPs' questions.
5 Should Geoff Hoon take responsibility for the actions of his officials?
Appearing before Lord Hutton, the defence secretary distanced himself from the whole affair, suggesting it was a personnel matter.
Under cross-examination he admitted being told about the MoD press statement and subsequent briefing strategy for journalists. He has strongly defended the actions of his officials, notably Richard Hatfield, the MoD's personnel director, who is likely to be criticised in Lord Hutton's report.
6 Did Dr Kelly tell the truth?
It remains unclear precisely what Dr Kelly told the BBC's Andrew Gilligan, and therefore it is unclear whether he was frank to the MoD. Dr Kelly said Gilligan raised Mr Campbell's name first; Gilligan said (in a Mail on Sunday article described by Mr Blair as adding "booster rockets" to the row) that Dr Kelly first mentioned Mr Campbell.
What is certain is that Dr Kelly denied to the foreign affairs committee that he was the source of a quote from Gilligan's BBC colleague Susan Watts about the dossier. This was untrue.
7 To what degree is Andrew Gilligan culpable?
During the hearings the broad thrust of Gilligan's allegations about the government's Iraqi weapons dossier was substantiated.
In one broadcast he described his source as an "intelligence source" - which Dr Kelly was not.
Gilligan admitted he was wrong to say in his first (6.07am) broadcast that the government "probably knew" the 45-minute claim (see below) "was wrong, even before it decided to put it in".
He also told the MPs that Dr Kelly was the source of Watts's report. That exposure "threw" Dr Kelly, Lord Hutton was told.
8 Are BBC editors and executives culpable?
Lord Hutton heard that the BBC Today programme did not warn the MoD beforehand about the allegations Gilligan planned to broadcast. He will consider whether senior BBC staff should have done more to control and calm the escalating row with Downing St, and Mr Campbell in particular.
9 How much did Dr Kelly know about the dossier?
This matters because Dr Kelly apparently resented the suggestion that he had had little part in it. He wrote parts of the dossier relating to biological and chemical weapons and, as a senior Foreign Office official put it, saw the different drafts "on an informal basis".
10 Was the dossier 'sexed up' by Downing Street?
This issue was the central accusation made by Gilligan after speaking to his source, Dr Kelly. The evidence from the hearings is that Mr Campbell and other close aides of Mr Blair put pressure on Mr Scarlett, who accepted their suggestions while insisting he had "ownership" of the dossier.
There are two striking examples.
Jonathan Powell, the Number 10 chief of staff, said he had "a bit of a problem" with a passage suggesting Saddam Hussein would only use weapons of mass destruction if attacked.
He wrote: "I think you should redraft the para." Mr Scarlett changed it to state Saddam was "willing to use chemical and biological weapons".
Mr Campbell suggested 15 changes. He described a passage saying Iraq "may be able" to deploy WMD within 45 minutesas "weak". Mr Scarlett changed it to "are able to".
11 Was the dossier misleading?
Even Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6, agreed that subsequent criticisms of the way the 45-minute claim was described in the dossier were "valid". Mr Scarlett told the inquiry the claim referred only to short-range, battlefield weapons. Defence intelligence officials, known to Dr Kelly, told Lord Hutton they had serious doubts about other claims in the dossier.
12 Are the intelligence agencies to blame?
Lord Hutton will have to consider whether the agencies, and Mr Scarlett in particular, should have done more to resist interference from Downing St.
13 Should parliament have been told about concern among intelligence officials about the dossier?
Lord Hutton is likely to say this is ultimately for MPs to decide.
14 Did Dr Kelly kill himself?
There is little doubt he killed himself.
15 Why?
Lord Hutton's inquiry was in a way an elaborate inquest. It heard, not least from his widow, that he bottled up his true feelings but also that he had been worried about his pension and pay.
The former law lord will have to judge in what ways Dr Kelly's ordeal in the dossier row contributed to his death.
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