Sunday, July 20, 2003
BBC says Kelly was weapons source. Finally something is going the Government's way. Although BBC Director of News Richard Sambrook's statement is not online yet he says something like 'the BBC believes it accurately interpreted Dr Kelly's remarks'. Which seems to stand back from the way they've behaved so far, introducing a note of doubt about whether their information was correct, which should please Ali C and remove some of the pressure from Downing Street. There's also the matter that at the Select Committee Dr Kelly said he wasn't sure he was reporter Andrew Gilligan's main source. The fact that the BBC says he was can lead to the belief that the whole report is Gilligan's view of information he got from Kelly and not fact. So now there may be less chance that Government officials will be resigning for this and more chance that it will be Gilligan and Sambrook quitting.
