Reply #8: Mr Gilligan is now on "gardening leave". [View All]

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" After an emergency meeting of the governors on July 6, Mr Davies said corporation guidelines allowed reporters, in exceptional circumstances, to use single anonymous sources if they were "senior intelligence sources".

Richard Sambrook, director of news, meanwhile, had told the Today programme: "We've always said that we had one senior and credible source in the intelligence services".

Mr Kelly was not a member of the intelligence services.

The head of news - who did not know Mr Kelly's identity at the time - now admits he was wrong to make that statement."

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1057562569808


The BBC's arrogant overreaching has saved Tony Blair. Jayson's Blair's lies in the New York Times merely brought down an editor. Gilligan's lies just may bring down the whole BBC as we know it.