The big macher at the BBC, Greg Dyke, told the Hutton inquiry a couple of devastating things yesterday. First, he admitted that he had denounced criticisms of the BBC’s journalism without even checking whether the sourcing was accurate or fair. Internal BBC emails worrying about the sloppy standards of reporter Andrew Gilligan’s journalism were unknown to him at the time, he said. He also conceded that it was “unacceptable” that Gilligan had leaked the name of the late scientist David Kelly as the source for another reporter’s work. In another piece of good news for the government, the head of MI6 said he stood by the intelligence that had suggested that Saddam could have had WMD capacity within 45 minutes – the key piece of evidence that the BBC said had been politically inserted into the Iraq war dossier. Advantage Blair.
ANOTHER HIV BREAKTHROUGH: Hey, I could have a kid, after all.
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