Blair Cleared in Death of Weapons Expert
Posted on: Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 06:00 CST
A judge cleared British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government Wednesday of dishonorable behavior in the death of a British expert on Iraqi weapons.
Senior appeals judge Lord Hutton investigated the death of David Kelly, who committed suicide last year after being identified as the source of a British Broadcasting Corp. report accusing the government of exaggerating claims about Iraqi weapons to bolster support for war.
The subsequent feud between the government and the BBC raised widespread concerns about the integrity of Blair and the broadcaster, and led to the biggest crisis of the prime minister's seven years in office.
"I am satisfied that none of the persons whose decisions and actions I later describe ever contemplated that Dr. Kelly might take his own life. I'm further satisfied that none of those persons was at fault in not contemplating that Dr. Kelly might take his own life," Hutton said on national TV as he read from his 328-page decision.
"Whatever pressures and strains Dr. Kelly was subjected to by the decisions and actions taken in the weeks before his death, I am satisfied that no one realized or should have realized that those pressures and strains might lead him to take his own life."
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