Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair appears a BBC current affairs program covering his political position on the war in Iraq. (AP)
Report Spares Blair on David Kelly Suicide Story aired: Wednesday, January 28, 2004
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is coming out of perhaps the most difficult 48 hours of his entire career.
Blair barely won a vote in Parliament yesterday on raising university fees. His credibility would have suffered an enormous blow if he had lost. Now, even more dangerously, a British judge, Lord Hutton, is releasing his report on the death of David Kelly, who was an advisor to the Blair government on weapons of mass destruction and who became named as the prime source of a BBC report alleging the Blair government "sexed up" reasons to go to war in Iraq.
David Kelly committed suicide in the wake of the BBC reports. Did Tony Blair have anything to do with naming Kelly? Did the BBC correctly use information from Kelly?
Explosive questions that Here and Now poses to WBUR's Michael Goldfarb.
