Dyke casts doubt on Hutton report

[T_i_B]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3443241.stm

Greg Dyke has said Lord Hutton was "quite clearly wrong" on some points of law in his report. The departing BBC director general told GMTV Alastair Campbell had been "ungracious" in the aftermath of the report.

He said he agreed with departing BBC chairman Gavyn Davies that one could not "choose the referee" and had to accept his decision, but joked: "The government did choose the referee." He added: "I would be interested in what a few other law lords, on looking at Hutton, thought of it.

"We have an opinion... there are points of law in there where he is quite clearly wrong. That doesn't mean to say he is wrong, that is an opinion."

"I think it was Stewart Purvis, the former chief executive of ITN, who said... it is remarkable how he has given the benefit of judgement to virtually everyone in the government and no-one in the BBC."

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1. Kind of like the way Thomas Kean is connected to the government, 'eh?

[Jack Rabbit]

2. The Hutton Report is a whitewash

Anyone who honestly believes the government on either side of the Pond got bad intelligence and then innocently told outrageous untruths to the public is a fool.

There's going to be a lot of fallout from this. The Hutton Report isn't not going to make things better for Blair nor is Dr. Kay's "bad intelligence" defense going to help the Frat Boy.