Kelly had been the only member of the Whitehall monolith to tell a - TopicsExpress



          

Kelly had been the only member of the Whitehall monolith to tell a journalist what hundreds of his fellow civil servants knew full well: that Downing Streets argument for invading Iraq was founded on deliberate dishonesty. In a haunting final email, he complained he was beset by dark actors, playing games, and hours later he was dead. For the majority of British people, who saw the Iraq war as an unnecessary disaster, the villain was not Saddam but Tony Blair, and, casting about for a hero, we fell on a mild-mannered boffin, a man who spoke truth to power at great personal cost, the whistle-blower who told us the government probably knew it was wrong.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:04:16 +0000

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