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Originally Posted by Nor
You've completely missed the actual important issue. The important issue is that Gilligan said Dr Kelly told him the government PROBABLY KNEW that there was no WMD threat but were including that there was within the dossier. Thats the important issue, thats what the whole incident was about.
The fact is... Dr Kelly never told Gilligan that at all, Gilligan made it up to 'sex up' his story. But instead of Dyke actually checking out Gilligans story, he didn't and replied to the governments complaint telling them they wouldn't apologise for the story and that it was 100% accurate. Then Dyke et al actually got round to checking the facts of Gilligans interview with Dr Kelly and there was no mention of that point which Gilligan made. The BBC then subsequently removed that allegation from all stories. Yet they did not apologise when they themselves knew they were wrong, with Dyke believing it was somehow a battle about the independance of the BBCs and their journalistic integrity. If Dyke had checked the facts before dismissing the governments complaint and going on the attack none of this would have ever happened.
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Greg Dyke's failure as you put it to check the facts led to a row between the BBC and the Government. Tony Blair's failure to check the facts supplied by British Intelligence led to a war with Iraq.