Iraq weapons expert David Kelly dead.

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"Nothing changed," he said. "Until the week before, it was just like I told you. It was transformed the week before publication, to make it sexier."

What do you mean? Can I take notes? "The classic," he said, "was the statement that WMD were ready for use in 45 minutes. One source said it took 45 minutes to launch a missile and that was misinterpreted to mean that WMD could be deployed in 45 minutes. There was no evidence that they had loaded conventional missiles with WMD, or could do so anything like that quickly." I asked him how this transformation happened. The answer was a single word.

"Campbell." What? Campbell made it up? "No, it was real information. But it was included against our wishes because it wasn't reliable."

Is anybody else wondering if this resembles how US intelligence got mangled as well?