Now, the picture is from 1990. The Department of Defense, Ministry of Defense in the UK hid this picture until 2022. So that picture was off the radar for 32 years.
Now, the picture is from 1990. The Department of Defense, Ministry of Defense in the UK hid this picture until 2022. So that picture was off the radar for 32 years.
So Gilligan's reporting specifically alleged that this claim was put in as an attempt by the government to mislead. In his initial appearance reporting on this on the May 29, 2003 episode of Today, Gilligan said, quote, what this person says is that a week before the publication date of the dossier, it was actually... The draft prepared for Mr. Blair by the intelligence agencies didn't actually say very much more than was public knowledge already. Downing Street, our source says, ordered a week before publication, ordered it to be sexed up, to be made more exciting, and ordered more facts to be discovered. Gilligan stressed that this detail, the 45-minute point, was very central to Tony Blair's appeal to go to war since it stressed the immediacy of the potential threat.
Ultimately, Hatfield took Kelly's word and decided that his actions in terms of talking to journalists was very naive, but not rising to the level of requiring disciplinary action. So he essentially got off with a warning in regards to these meetings that were about his letter that he sent to the Ministry of Defense about these suspicions.