Wednesday, September 03, 2003

Today's Hutton Inquiry Revelations

1. If nothing else, those Brits have a nice turn of phrase. The weapons report wasn't so much "sexed-up" as "over-egged."

2. New York Times journalist Judith Miller, who was definitely sexing-up and over-egging claims of Iraq's WMDs, was in e-mail contact with Dr. Kelly, including one sent 3 hours before he died:

The inquiry was shown further e-mails including one to Judith Miller saying: "Judy I will wait until the end of the week before judging - many dark actors playing games. Thanks for your support. I appreciate your friendship at this time."

Which prompts the mystery of why his relative skepticism about WMDs didn't feed into her reports.

No comments: