Blair and Campbell involved

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http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1021128,00.html

Ciar Byrne
Monday August 18, 2003

Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell held crisis talks about David Kelly, the scientist they believed was the mole who gave the BBC the story about the Iraq intelligence dossier.

The prime minister and his director of communications were both actively involved in key meetings about the fate of Dr Kelly in the days before his name was made public.

And Mr Campbell took a "pro-active" role in the discussions the day before his name became public, deciding Dr Kelly should be named in a key letter to the BBC from the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon.

The sequence of high powered confidential meetings that included his chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, top civil servants and Mr Campbell, were today outlined for the first time in the Hutton inquiry.

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[Spentastic]

1. Calling AP

I assume sacrificing our public servants is worthwhile for Jesus's Tony's greater vision.

This whole affair has just illustrated exactly how evasive this Government has become.

[T_i_B]

3. Try these two threads

AP's current attempts at defending Blair for today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=191077

And check out AP attempting to smearing the late Dr Kelly here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=171139#174664

[AP]

6. That second post of yours...

the Walter Mitty one. Let's recap. I posted some very good news about the British economy, and how it was employing more people, and wages were up. That's all very good, very liberal stuff. You said that you couldn't enjoy or appreciate that because Campbell called Kelly a Walter Mitty character. You asked me if I could live with that. I thought that that was so inconsequential, in terms of bigger picture that, no I didn't think it was a big deal that Kelly thought Campbell was a Walter Mitty character. Honestly, made a mistake there because I don't even know what it means to be a Walter Mitty charcter so, the relationships between who was calling whom what made no sense. So, you know what, on the Walter Mitty front, I'd prefer the jobs and high wages.

[T_i_B]

7. I asked you a question, you replied with a load of Bollocks.

What's more the question was one highly relevant to the article I posted. You tried to duck out of it so i asked a second time, at which point you told a wee porky pie and tried to claim that David Kelly had called Blair's spin doctor "a Walter Mitty character" when it fact it was the other way around, and it wasn't Campbell either but a man called Tom Kelly.

Yet again you are posting stuff on a subject which you either know f**k all about or you are deliberatly lying about the whole squalid mess. Take a look at the analysis below to discover more. Next time check out the facts before opening your mouth. You might just learn something in the proccess.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3125377.stm

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5. Yes, every public employee should be treated like a potential suicide

You know, suicide is relatively rare, and it's hard to plan for it, and it's often caused by things like severe depression caused by clinical problems, for which it's hard for people to plan. At least it's nice that they had a series of conversations contemplating all the factors. Perhaps if they knew they guy was suicidal, they might have made a different decision.

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2. Tony certainly spent a lot of time talking about "Walter Mitty" Kelly

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4. Blair is dirty on this.