seamus milne in the guardian describes the hutton thing as a sideshow in his article 'the shadow of iraq'.



his contention is that bliar chose hutton because he knew the old twat would side with the government. he had, after all, represented british soldiers in the widgery enquiry and was quite happy to sit as a diplock judge in northern ireland. for those of you who don't know what that was: lord diplock proposed, and got, a system of trial without jury in northern ireland 'terrorism' cases. the reason given was that jurors would have been blackmailed into the wrong verdict by terrorists representing the accused in the trials. the reality was that judges sat without jury and found almost everyone guilty because they automatically assumed guilt if the police pressed charges, under the 'there's no smoke without fire' assumption.



so here's this old fascist who convicts without evidence in northern ireland, finding not guilty without evidence in the case of the government and guilty without evidence in the case of the b.b.c.



his findings are bizarre. while the b.b.c. may need to review its editorial policy, the fact that he says gilligan's story was 'unfounded' was an absolute lie. dr kelly had given the same story to another b.b.c. journalist - whose name i now forget - but hutton did not even mention her name in his report. why not? she backed-up gilligan's claims about what dr kelly had said, yet her evidence was not used in the findings.



he has completely covered-up the government's handling of the iraq crisis, its complete lack of care about dr kelly's state of mind, the truth in gilligan's report - later events have, after all, proved him correct - there was no weapon in iraq which could have been made ready to attack the british mainland within 45 minutes - there were no weapons with that range, as dr david kay, the u.s. weapons inspector, and his team have shown.



hutton is a charlatan and all right-thinkling people will ignore the crap he has written and get back to the important issues:

• why no-one in government gave a damn about the mental health of dr kelly;


• retention of the independence of the b.b.c.;


• chasing bliar out of office for lying to us about iraq;


• chasing bliar out of office for getting loads of british service-people killed in iraq;


• chasing bliar out of office for only caring about oil supplies from iraq.