Sun Sets on the BBC

The Sun is the only newspaper in England, as far as I know, that has aggressively backed Tony Blair in the BBC scandal. This morning the Sun reported on yesterday’s testimony of top intelligence official John Scarlett in the Hutton inquiry: “Spook Clears King of Spin”.
Scarlett testified that he was responsible for the Iraq dossier that was the subject of the false BBC report and that the BBC’s account was “absolutely untrue.” Scarlett said that he put the famous “45 minute” item in the dossier based on top-secret intelligence from Iraq, and that Downing Street’s input into the dossier was that it needed

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