AN INSPECTOR FALLS: Kelly's career included many Iraqi trips
It has the tawdry, implausible feel of a plot twist in a second-rate Tom Clancy novel. Britain's most distinguished expert on biological weapons, a mild, 59-year-old career bureaucrat of unblemished reputation, briefly rockets onto the national stage when he must tell a parliamentary committee about his contacts with a BBC journalist who may or may not have relied upon him to produce an incendiary story that challenged the integrity of the government. He appears strained while testifying mumbling and shaking his head denies being the source for the story, and complains about the experience afterwards, but the committee doesn't...
