Whats Up With the Hutton Inquiry?
by Mary At the start of the inquiry, Lord Hutton said that he wanted to release his report by the end of the year, but according to the latest news reports it will be released sometime next month. Nevertheless, the ripples from the inquiry continue to spread and new revelations have created more problems for the Blair government. The latest revelation comes from Scott Ritter who said that in the late 1990s he was working with MI6 to plant stories in the foreign press to create a case for using military force on Iraq. This week, the British government admitted that it did run a program called Operation Mass Appeal as reported by Ritter, but denies any wrong doing. Ritter reported that MI6 continued to plant stories up to the start of the war and said that Dr. David Kelly was also part of this disinformation campaign. Poland was one of the three targeted countries (the other two were India and South America) and it appears the effort to shape public opinion was quite successful as the ci
