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January 29, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/international/europe/29BLAI.html

Report on Iraq Case Clears Blair and Faults BBC

(New York Times) Senior British judge Lord Hutton on Wednesday cleared Prime Minister Tony Blair and his government of any deliberate attempt to deceive the British public over the threat from Iraq. In the long-awaited 740-page report, Hutton called "unfounded" the assertion - reported by the BBC on May 29 - that government officials had used intelligence they "probably knew" was wrong. The judge castigated the BBC for sloppy, inaccurate reporting and "defective" editorial supervision. In reaction, the chairman of the BBC's board of governors, Gavyn Davies, resigned.

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