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...Suspicions of foul play began to circulate, mainly among critics of the Iraq war....
...report into the Iraq war was labelled a whitewash....
...Verbatim has united with intense physical theatre to document drug abuse and trauma (John, at the National Theatre) and with dance to tell the story of Scottish soldiers in Iraq (Black Watch, by the National...
...After Lord Hutton’s report in 2003 and the Butler report the following year, the one thing Sir John could not have afforded to produce was another report that was dismissed as a whitewash....
...inquiry into the Iraq war....
...There have already been several UK inquiries into aspects of the Iraq conflict....
...Chilcot is not the first official examination of the Iraq war: in 2003-2004 there was the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly, the weapons scientist, which criticised the BBC for its reporting of...
...“It’s Ebola in Africa, Isil [Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant] in Syria and Iraq, what’s going on with Iran, Russian aggression in Ukraine....
...It adds: “Get them to investigate . . . and publish a Hutton-style report.”...
...From Miss A M S Hutton-Wilson....
...Today we are committing to complete the public service pension reforms proposed by Lord Hutton, bringing total savings of £1.3 billion a year....
...He resigned as BBC director-general in 2004 after publication of the Hutton report into the corporation’s reporting of the official justification for the UK’s involvement in the Iraq conflict....
...Lord Hutton’s inquiry in 2004 exonerated the government and criticised Gilligan’s reporting and the BBC’s management. “The findings were ridiculous,” fumes Dyke. Yet the BBC’s governors sacked him....
...Mr Kelly had been identified as the source of a BBC story that the government “sexed up” an intelligence report to justify going to war in Iraq....
...In 2004, the Hutton report on the suicide of David Kelly criticised the BBC for the way it reported information supplied by the government weapons expert about the reasons Tony Blair gave for invading Iraq...
...His evidence adds to a long furore over the dossier, subject of several probes, including the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly, the scientist....
...“What we’ve seen in Libya is hugely significant,” said Lord Hutton, a former defence secretary in the last Labour government....
...at the Hutton inquiry....
...inquiry found that Mr Kelly took his own life in woods near his Oxfordshire home in July 2003 after he was publicly named as the source of a BBC report claiming aides to Tony Blair ”sexed up” a dossier on Iraq...
...John Hutton, the former defence secretary, told the Iraq inquiry that the botched attempt to buy a new generation of army vehicles was a “grim episode” that underlined the need for an “urgent shake-up”....
...that the government misused intelligence reports to take the UK to war in Iraq in 2003....
...One of David Cameron’s early acts on becoming prime minister in May was to appoint yet another committee of inquiry into an aspect of the Iraq war....
...Alastair Campbell has started testifying publicly before a committee investigating the Iraq war for the fourth time....
...inquiries by Lord Hutton and Lord Butler in 2004....
...Numerous analysts, from left and right, including David Landes, Martin Jacques and Will Hutton have studied more recent history....
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