Remember Dr. David Kelly?

Remember Dr. David Kelly?

by Angie in WA State

   

Sun Jan 24, 2010 at 02:12:10 AM PST

70-year gag on Kelly death evidence (Dr. David Kelly)

Now, I'm up late tonight (Saturday in the Pacific Northwest about 2 am).  I'm just splurging on Net News, linking from site to site, when I catch this fairly short - but somewhat alarming bit.

Who was Dr. David Kelly?  I remembered, and it's likely why I clicked the link and read the story anyway.

Dr. David Kelly worked for the Ministry of Defense/U.K. as an expert in bio-weapons. He was also one of the key UN weapons inspectors in Iraq.

He was found dead near his home in the midst of the brouhaha about Weapons of Mass Destruction and the forging ahead with the initial US invasion of Iraq in 2003. It was portrayed as a suicide.

The Ministry of Justice said decisions on the evidence were a matter for Lord Hutton.

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Today, the British news site, The London Evening Standard ran this story: 
70-year gag on Kelly death evidence

The brunt of the story?

If Dr. Kelly had committed suicide, as had originally been the official cause of death, then what could possibly bring about a 70 year gag order on the investigation and 30 years on documents related to it, but not entered into evidence?

If it was a murder, in whose best interests would it be to lock the case up for 70 years (long enough that anyone involved would be long dead and beyond the reach of the Law).

Dr. Kelly had been exposed to the media in much the same way that Valerie Plame's identity was revealed in the United States (The Plame Affair).

Excerpt

Lord Hutton's report in 2004 concluded that Dr Kelly killed himself by cutting an artery in his wrist. But the finding has been challenged by doctors who claim that the weapons inspector's stated injuries were not serious enough.

One of the doctors seeking a full inquest, former assistant coroner Michael Powers, told the Mail on Sunday he had seen a letter from the legal team of Oxfordshire County Council explaining the unusual restrictions placed by Lord Hutton on material relating to his inquiry.

The letter states: "Lord Hutton made a request for the records provided to the inquiry, not produced in evidence, to be closed for 30 years, and that medical (including post-mortem) reports and photographs be closed for 70 years."

Dr Powers asked: "Supposedly all evidence relevant to the cause of death has been heard in public at the time of Lord Hutton's inquiry. If these secret reports support the suicide finding, what could they contain that could be so sensitive?"

What in the world could be behind these results?

What information could necessitate a 30-70 year stay in a lockbox?

What doesn't the British Government not want the world to know?

In an era when all the terrible secrecy and mayhem is being laid at the feet of my nation's military and intelligence bureaus, it's, sadly, almost a relief to see that elsewhere in the world someone's up to something no good, too.