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HuttonInquiry.sPubDate = "1/28/2004 8:46:51 PM GMT";
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HuttonInquiry[i-1].body = "Lord Hutton, a senior appeals judge, presided over an inquiry into the death of British weapons expert Dr. David Kelly. Kelly committed suicide last July after being named as the source behind BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan's claim that the government \"sexed up\" its dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to bolster its argument for the war with Iraq. The purpose of the probe was to look into the circumstances by which Kelly was named as the reporter's source, whether or not the government manipulated the intelligence dossier, and how the BBC, known as the \"Beeb,\" handled the story. ";
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HuttonInquiry[i-1].body = "No, Hutton said he was satisfied that Kelly committed suicide and that nobody involved in the matter could have foreseen that Kelly would take his own life.
\"Whatever pressures and strains Dr. Kelly was subject to by the decisions and actions taken in the weeks before his death, I am satisfied that no one realized or should have realized that these pressures and strains might have driven him to take his own life or contribute to his decision to do so.\"";
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HuttonInquiry[i-1].body = "No, Hutton said the BBC report that the government probably falsified its claim that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes was unfounded.
\"Whether or not at some time in the future the report on which the 45-minute claim was based was shown to be unreliable, the allegations reported by Mr. Gilligan on 29 May 2003 that the government probably knew that the 45-minutes claim was wrong before the government decided to put it in the dossier was an allegation that was unfounded.\"";
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HuttonInquiry[i-1].body = "Hutton said that although it was not possible to reach a conclusion about what Kelly told Gilligan, he was satisfied that Kelly had not told the reporter that the government probably knew or suspected the 45-minute claim was wrong when it drew up the dossier. ";
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HuttonInquiry[i-1].body = "No, Hutton said the government did not have a devious scheme to leak Kelly’s name to the press.
\"I am satisfied that there was not a dishonorable or underhand or duplicitous strategy on the part of the prime minister and officials to leak (his name)... I was satisfied there was no such underhand strategy.\"";
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HuttonInquiry[i-1].body = "Yes.
\"I consider that the editorial system which the BBC permitted was defective in that Mr. Gilligan was allowed to broadcast his report at 6:07 a.m. without editors having seen his script of what he was going to say and having considered whether it should be approved.\"
In addition, he said, \"the governors [of the BBC] should have made a more detailed investigation of Gilligan's notes.\"
Following Hutton’s report, the chairman of the BBC, Gavyn Davies, resigned and the broadcaster apologized for some of its reporting on the war in Iraq.";
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