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#659: July 21-23, 2003

Knowledge Fight

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The Kelly Letter to the House of Commons

House of commons set up a committee to investigate whether or not the decision to go to war had been done with complete and accurate information. One of the m ps who launched the effort, donald anderson, specifically cited gilligan's reporting as one of the factors that led to the decision to in that inquiry. At the same time, the ministry of defense was getting curious about who had leaked this information that they felt was inaccurate. On july thirtieth, kelly wrote a letter to his hier ups at the ministry of defence, which definitely intended to create the impression that he barely spoke to gilligan,. He didn't even consider that he could have been his source until

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