Blair gets a pass from Hutton

Britain’s Hutton Inquiry is supposed to be putting the whole text of Lord H’s final report up onto its website sometime today. It hasn’t happened yet.
In the meantime, I guess Lord H is reading out some portion of it in his hearing-room, and Tony Blair seems to be answering questions on it during Prime Minister’s Question-time in Parliament.
(Now there’s a fine institution–PMQ, the practice whereby the head of government regularly has to face probing questioning from the people’s elected representatives–whose introduction into the US would do a lot to temper the increasingly imperial qualities of the present-day US presidency…)
However, it’s clear already that Lord H gave Blair an almost complete pass regarding some of the more damaging allegations…


Namely (1) that Blair had been responsible in some way for the decision to “out” David Kelly’s name to the press– the decision that led, along the line to the weapons scientist’s suicide last July; and (2) that Blair had somehow forced his intel people to skew their WMD findings re Iraq in a way that would bolster the case he needed to make to go to war.
Here, from the Guardian are the main findings Lord H made regarding Blair and Kelly respectively:

    On Tony Blair

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