Alistair Campbell, Prime Minister Tony Blair's powerful communications director and the man accused of "sexing up" the British case for going to war in Iraq, did his best last week to defend himself and his boss. He appeared to be smooth and understated at the investigation into the apparent suicide of David Kelly, the former government weapons expert who shared with a BBC reporter his doubts about the government's case for war, got dragged before parliamentary committees and then took his own life. Campbell had a denial ready for the central question of whether he had influenced the words used in...
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