Dr David Kelly

Much is being made on the boards of the death of biological weapons expert Dr David Kelly, near his home on Friday.
It seems that he committed suicide after being 'outed' by the MOD as the mole in the Gilligan affair. He was forced to give evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee this week, and was reportedly angry and stressed about the whole fiasco.
Now the argument is: who's to blame? Is it the BBC for their 'obsession' over the case of Alistair Campbell? Or is it the Government, with its attempts at reducing press freedom and its general behaviour connected with the non-existent weapons of mass destruction?
Of course, the culprit is in a way irrelevant. The fact is that the dodgiest war in a while has claimed one more victim. The BBC is practically a gov't agency anyhow. Owned by the people, under strict rules at times of war, it is essentially the ministry of information that we don't have in Britain.
And then there's the ... lets say... the 'conspiracy' angle. He emailed a journalist in the US just a day or two before his suicide saying there were 'many dark actors playing games'... is this about Morgan Freeman, or is it more sinister??? I'm getting my tin foil hat... etc
No, the truth is that the government did kill him, but only by making him depressed, fearful, paranoid, stressed and angry.
So that's ok then.

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